picturesque

Alternative forms

• picture-skew (humorous)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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; pleasingly beautiful.

   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.