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adjective pic·tur·esque \ËŒpik-chÉ™-ˈresk\

: very pretty or charming : like a painted picture

: telling about something in a way that makes it very easy to imagine : causing someone to have a very clear mental picture of something

Full 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

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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