picturesque

Speech parts

1. picturesque - Adjective

2. picturesque - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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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Examples

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. Walt Whitman

Pictures must not be too picturesque. Ralph Waldo Emerson

An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar. Mark Twain

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write? Ernest Hemingway

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. Henry David Thoreau

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine. Primo Levi

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