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Definition of Picturesque

1. Adjective. Suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture. "A picturesque village"

2. Adjective. Strikingly expressive. "A picturesque description of the rainforest"

Definition of Picturesque

1. a. 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.

Definition of Picturesque

1. Adjective. Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting. scenic ¹

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Definition of Picturesque

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Picturesque

1. 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." Picturesque"ly, Picturesque"ness. Origin: It. Pittoresco: cf. F. Pittoresque. See Pictorial. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Picturesque

picture taking picture tube picture window picture writing picturebook picturebooks pictured picturegoer picturegoers pictureless

picturephone picturephones picturer picturers pictures picturesque (current term) picturesquely picturesqueness picturesquenesses picturesquish

picturing picturization picturizations picturize picturized picturizes picturizing picul piculet piculets

Literary usage of Picturesque

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Historical Society (1839)
"A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL, ANTIQUARIAN, AND picturesque TOUR IN THE COUNTIES OP lutto In, f^orb, ... au eye for the picturesque, and a happy versatility of style, ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1857)
"picturesque SINS. ВТ WESTLAND MARSTON. EVERT moralist can ehow us that vice is universally wrong. I wish some one would arise to show that it is universally ..."

3. American Book Prices Current (1902)
"6603 picturesque Europe. New York, 1875. 3 vols., royal 41o, half morocco, gilt edges. ... (2609) $6.30 6605 picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt. ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The picturesque buildings are mostly Tudor or Jacobean, while Gilbert Scott's magnificent chapel, opened in 1869, is Early Decorated. ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"Particularly is this the case with the long, uninteresting row of houses that border a village street ; their picturesque Fio- ..."

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