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Picturesque

Picturesque Meaning & Definition
Picturesque Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Picturesque?

[adj] suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture; "a picturesque village"
[adj] strikingly expressive; "a picturesque description of the rainforest"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Picturesque: beautiful | colorful

Related Terms | Find terms related to Picturesque: arabesque | attractive | baroque | busy | charming | chichi | colorful | delightful | elaborate | elegant | fancy | fetching | fine | flamboyant | florid | flowery | freehand | frilly | fussy | graphic | high-wrought | idyllic | interesting | intriguing | labored | lovely | luxuriant | luxurious | monochrome | moresque | original | ornate | ostentatious | overelaborate | overelegant | overlabored | overworked | overwrought | painty | pastose | photographic | pictorial | picturable | pictural | pleasing | polychrome | pretty | pretty-pretty | quaint | realistic | rich | rococo | scenic | scenographic | scumbled | striking | unique | unusual | vivid

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Picturesque In Webster's Dictionary

\Pic`tur*esque"\, a. [It. pittoresco: cf. F. pittoresque. See {Pictorial}.] Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language. What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. --De Quincey. -- {Pic`tur*esque"ly}, adv. -- {Pic`tur*esque"ness}, n.

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