Thesaurus: picturesque

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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.
2. adj. suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture
3. adj. strikingly expressive
4. 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. De Quincey. -- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. -- Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.
5. Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture;representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to apicture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeablein a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, apicturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and thesublime It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess.De Quincey.-- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv.-- Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.
6. j:100 s. suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture s. strikingly expressive