picturesque

pic·tur·esque

adj \ˌpik-chə-ˈresk\

Definition of PICTURESQUE

1

a : resembling a picture : suggesting a painted scene b : charming or quaint in appearance

2

: evoking mental images : vivid

— pic·tur·esque·ly adverb

— pic·tur·esque·ness noun

Examples of PICTURESQUE

1. The view of the mountains was very picturesque.
2. <wrote a picturesque tale of their journey across the country>

Origin of PICTURESQUE

French & Italian; French pittoresque, from Italian pittoresco, from pittore painter, from Latin pictor, from pingere

First Known Use: 1703

Related to PICTURESQUE

Synonyms: delineated, pictorial, graphic, visual, vivid

Related Words: depicted, descriptive, expressive; concrete, explicit, specific; faithful, lifelike, natural, photographic, realistic; fresh, incisive, sharp

Near Antonyms: indeterminate, nebulous, obscure, sketchy, unclear, vague; bleary, blurry, dark, dim, faint, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable, muddy, murky, shadowlike, shadowy; ambiguous, cryptic, dark, enigmatic (also enigmatical), equivocal, inscrutable, mysterious

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Rhymes with PICTURESQUE

arabesque, Bunyanesque, copydesk, gigantesque, humoresque, Junoesque, Kafkaesque, picaresque, plateresque, Romanesque, Rubenesque, Runyonesque, sculpturesque, statuesque, Whitmanesque