PICTURESQUE
\pˌɪkt͡ʃəɹˈɛsk], \pˌɪktʃəɹˈɛsk], \p_ˌɪ_k_tʃ_ə_ɹ_ˈɛ_s_k]\
Definitions of PICTURESQUE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Giving a vivid impression. as a picture does; suitable to be drawn or painted as a picture; graphic; as, picturesque language; having wild, rugged, or irregular beauty; romantic; as, picturesque scenery.
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Picturesquely.
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Picturesqueness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. The combination of natural objects which forms a beautiful scene or landscape in nature;—the selection and grouping of forms, shapes, and features in animate or inanimate life to constitute a pleasing and effective picture or painting;—the description of events, representation of characters, or expression of thoughts so as to affect the mind or imagination with a sense of reality, truthfulness, or power.
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