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Webster 1913 Edition
Picturesque
Picˊtur-esque′
,Adj.
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.
– Picˊtur-esque′ly
, adv.
Picˊtur-esque′ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Picturesque
PICTURESQUE
Definition 2024
picturesque
picturesque
English
Alternative forms
- picture-skew (humorous)
Adjective
picturesque (comparative more picturesque, superlative most picturesque)
- Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting.
- We looked down onto a beautiful, picturesque sunset over the ocean.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.
Synonyms
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:picturesque.
Derived terms
Translations
resembling a picture or painting
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External links
- picturesque in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- picturesque in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911