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Adjective [English]

IPA: /pɪkt͡ʃəˈɹɛsk/ Audio: en-us-picturesque.ogg Forms: more picturesque [comparative], most picturesque [superlative]
Etymology: From picture + -esque, a calque of Italian pittoresco, from pittura (“a picture, painting”). Etymology templates: {{suf|en|picture|esque}} picture + -esque, {{calque|en|it|pittoresco|nocap=1}} calque of Italian pittoresco Head templates: {{en-adj}} picturesque (comparative more picturesque, superlative most picturesque)
  1. Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting; pleasingly beautiful. Translations (resembling a picture or painting): живописен (živopisen) (Bulgarian), 繪畫般的 (Chinese Mandarin), 绘画般的 (huìhuà bān de) (Chinese Mandarin), 逼真 (bīzhēn) (Chinese Mandarin), 栩栩如生 (xǔxǔrúshēng) (Chinese Mandarin), 生動 (Chinese Mandarin), 生动 (shēngdòng) (Chinese Mandarin), 風景如畫 (english: picturesque scenery) (Chinese Mandarin), 风景如画 (fēngjǐngrúhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), malebný (Czech), pitoreskní (Czech), pittoresk (Danish), malerisk (Danish), pittoresk (Dutch), schilderachtig (Dutch), pitoreska (Esperanto), pittoreski (Finnish), maalauksellinen (Finnish), kuvankaunis (Finnish), pittoresque (French), pintoresco (Galician), malerisch [especially] (German), pittoresk [especially] (German), γραφικός (grafikós) (Greek), ציורי (Hebrew), festői (Hungarian), pittoreszk (Hungarian), pitoreska (Ido), piktinda (Ido), pikturatra (Ido), pittoresco (Italian), vaizdingas (Lithuanian), сликовит (slikovit) (Macedonian), живописен (živopisen) (Macedonian), pittoresk (Norwegian Bokmål), malerisk (Norwegian Bokmål), naturskjønn (Norwegian Bokmål), pittoresk (Norwegian Nynorsk), naturskjønn (Norwegian Nynorsk), malowniczy (Polish), pitoresco (Portuguese), pitoresc (Romanian), живопи́сный (živopísnyj) (Russian), pitorèskan (Serbo-Croatian), pintoresco (Spanish), pittoresk (Swedish), pitoresk (Turkish), resimsi (Turkish), мальовни́чий (malʹovnýčyj) (Ukrainian), живопи́сний (žyvopýsnyj) (Ukrainian), đẹp như tranh (Vietnamese), בילדעריש (bilderish) (Yiddish)
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  2. (figurative, by extension) Strikingly graphic or vivid; having striking and vivid imagery. Tags: broadly, figuratively
    Sense id: en-picturesque-en-adj-~IEC4Ctf
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: quaint, scenic, picture-skew [humorous] Derived forms: picturesquely, picturesqueness

Alternative forms

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          "text": "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.",
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          "word": "栩栩如生"
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          "word": "風景如畫"
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          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "bilderish",
          "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
          "word": "בילדעריש"
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        "Strikingly graphic or vivid; having striking and vivid imagery."
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      ],
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      ]
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      "ipa": "/pɪkt͡ʃəˈɹɛsk/"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "quaint"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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}
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    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Ido translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
    "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
    "Terms with Yiddish translations"
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      "word": "picturesquely"
    },
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      "name": "suf"
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          "ref": "1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, “A Stranger from South Carolina”, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 3:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1946 March and April, R. A. H. Weight, “Euston to the North-West”, in Railway Magazine, page 71:",
          "text": "A dear old lady said she thought the ancient castle at Conway most picturesque, but that it was a pity they put it so close to the railway!",
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          "text": "picturesque language",
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        "Strikingly graphic or vivid; having striking and vivid imagery."
      ],
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        [
          "graphic",
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          "vivid",
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          "imagery",
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        "(figurative, by extension) Strikingly graphic or vivid; having striking and vivid imagery."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "figuratively"
      ]
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      "ipa": "/pɪkt͡ʃəˈɹɛsk/"
    },
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    {
      "word": "quaint"
    },
    {
      "word": "scenic"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
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      "word": "picture-skew"
    }
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "živopisen",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "живописен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "繪畫般的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "huìhuà bān de",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "绘画般的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bīzhēn",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "逼真"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xǔxǔrúshēng",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "栩栩如生"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "生動"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shēngdòng",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "生动"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "english": "picturesque scenery",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "風景如畫"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fēngjǐngrúhuà",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "风景如画"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "malebný"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pitoreskní"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pittoresk"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "malerisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pittoresk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "schilderachtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pitoreska"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pittoreski"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "maalauksellinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "kuvankaunis"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pittoresque"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pintoresco"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "raw_tags": [
        "of nature"
      ],
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "tags": [
        "especially"
      ],
      "word": "malerisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "raw_tags": [
        "of settlements"
      ],
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "tags": [
        "especially"
      ],
      "word": "pittoresk"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "grafikós",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "γραφικός"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "ציורי"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "festői"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pittoreszk"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pitoreska"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "piktinda"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pikturatra"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pittoresco"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "vaizdingas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "slikovit",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "сликовит"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "živopisen",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "живописен"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pittoresk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "malerisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "naturskjønn"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pittoresk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "naturskjønn"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "malowniczy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pitoresco"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pitoresc"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "živopísnyj",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "живопи́сный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pitorèskan"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pintoresco"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pittoresk"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "pitoresk"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "resimsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "malʹovnýčyj",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "мальовни́чий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "žyvopýsnyj",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "живопи́сний"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "đẹp như tranh"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "bilderish",
      "sense": "resembling a picture or painting",
      "word": "בילדעריש"
    }
  ],
  "word": "picturesque"
}

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