Picturesque Definition

pĭkchə-rĕsk
adjective
Like or suggesting a picture.
Webster's New World
Suggesting or calling up a mental picture; striking; vivid.
A picturesque description.
Webster's New World
Striking or interesting in an unusual way; irregularly or quaintly attractive.
A picturesque French café.
American Heritage
Strikingly expressive or vivid.
Picturesque language.
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Origin of Picturesque

  • Alteration of French pittoresque from Italian pittoresco from pittore painter from Latin pictor Pictor

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • picture +"Ž -esque, from Italian pittoresco, from pittura (“a picture, painting"); see picture.

    From Wiktionary

Picturesque Sentence Examples

  • Large windows framed a picturesque pond, boarded by tall pines.

  • The broad Oxford road forms its picturesque main street.

  • Alluring brooks of crystal water flowed sparkling between their flower-strewn banks, while scattered over the valley were dozens of the quaintest and most picturesque cottages our travelers had ever beheld.

  • The city is built on a rocky hill rising from the Guayangareo valley, which gives to it a strikingly picturesque appearance.

  • As we screeched to a stop, Agent Osborn, tall and picturesque, approached our car.

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Words Starting With

PPIPIC

Words Ending With

EUEQUE

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picturesque

Words Starting With P and Ending With E

Starts With P & Ends With EStarts With PI & Ends With EStarts With P & Ends With UE

Word Length

11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With P11 Letter Words Ending With E