PICTURESQUE meaning: Visually charming or quaintly attractive

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word picturesque:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

picturesque: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
picturesque: Merriam-Webster
picturesque: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
picturesque: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
picturesque: Collins English Dictionary
picturesque: Vocabulary.com
Picturesque, picturesque: Wordnik
picturesque: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
picturesque: Wiktionary
picturesque: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
picturesque: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
picturesque: Infoplease Dictionary
Picturesque, picturesque: Dictionary.com
picturesque: Online Etymology Dictionary
picturesque: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Picturesque: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Picturesque: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
picturesque: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
picturesque: Rhymezone
Picturesque: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
picturesque: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
picturesque: FreeDictionary.org
picturesque: Mnemonic Dictionary
picturesque: TheFreeDictionary.com
picturesque: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)

picturesque: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

picturesque: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

PICTURESQUE: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective: Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting; pleasingly beautiful.
▸ adjective: (figurative, by extension) Strikingly graphic or vivid; having striking and vivid imagery.

Opposite:

ugly, hideous, ghastly, grim, grotesque

Types:

pastoral, idyllic, romantic, more...

Phrases:

Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo, picturesque views, most picturesque, more...

Adjectives:

most, least, normandy, moral, highest, romantic, mere, singularly, urban, lower, uncommonly

Colors:

azure, cerulean, coral, emerald, lavender, more...

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