picturesque

English

Alternative forms

• picture-skew (humorous)

Etymology

picture +‎ -esque, from Italian pittoresco, from pittura (“a picture, painting”); see picture.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɪktʃəˈɹɛsk/

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Adjective

picturesque (comparative more picturesque, superlative most picturesque)

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

   We looked down onto a beautiful, picturesque sunset over the ocean.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     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.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Derived terms

• picturesquely
• picturesqueness

Translations

resembling a picture or painting

• Chinese: 绘画般的, 逼真的, 栩栩如生的, 生动的
• Czech: malebný (cs), pitoreskní (cs)
• Danish: pittoresk (da), malerisk (da)
• Finnish: pittoreski (fi), maalauksellinen (fi)
• French: pittoresque (fr)
• Galician: pintoresco (gl)
• German: pittoresk (de)
• Greek: γραφικός (el) (grafikós)
• Hebrew: ציורי
• Hungarian: festői (hu), pittoreszk (hu)

• Italian: pittoresco (it)
• Lithuanian: vaizdingas (lt)
• Macedonian: сликовит (mk) (slíkovit) m, живописен (mk) (živópisen) m
• Polish: malowniczy (pl) m
• Portuguese: pitoresco (pt) m, pitoresca (pt) f
• Romanian: pitoresc (ro)
• Russian: живописный (ru) (živopísnyj)
• Spanish: pintoresco (es)
• Swedish: pittoresk (sv)

External links

• picturesque in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• picturesque in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911