Picturesque
Source : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Picturesque \Pic`tur*esque"\, a. [It. pittoresco: cf. F.
pittoresque. See Pictorial .]
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.
[1913 Webster]
What is picturesque as placed in relation to the
beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the
characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. --De
Quincey.
[1913 Webster] -- Pic`tur*esque"ly , adv. --
Pic`tur*esque"ness , n.
[1913 Webster]
Source : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
colorful \colorful\ adj.
1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless .
Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
shot ; deep, rich ; flaming ; fluorescent, glowing ;
prismatic ; psychedelic ; red, ruddy, flushed,
empurpled ]
Syn: colourful.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
or dull . [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious ;
flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained ; flashy, gaudy,
jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty ; picturesque ]
[WordNet 1.5]
3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
monochrome .
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted ; touched, tinged ; amber,
brownish-yellow, yellow-brown ; amethyst ; auburn,
reddish-brown ; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden ;
azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue ; bicolor,
bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome ; blue,
bluish, light-blue, dark-blue ; blushful,
blush-colored, rosy ; bottle-green ; bronze, bronzy ;
brown, brownish, dark-brown ; buff ; canary,
canary-yellow ; caramel, caramel brown ; carnation ;
chartreuse ; chestnut ; dun ; earth-colored,
earthlike ; fuscous ; green, greenish, light-green,
dark-green ; jade, jade-green ; khaki ; lavender,
lilac ; mauve ; moss green, mosstone ; motley,
multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
varicolored, varicoloured ; mousy, mouse-colored ;
ocher, ochre ; olive-brown ; olive-drab ; olive ;
orange, orangish ; peacock-blue ; pink, pinkish ;
purple, violet, purplish ; red, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
scarlet ; red, reddish ; rose, roseate ; rose-red ;
rust, rusty, rust-colored ; snuff, snuff-brown,
snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown ; sorrel,
brownish-orange ; stone, stone-gray ; straw-color,
straw-colored, straw-coloured ; tan ; tangerine ;
tawny ; ultramarine ; umber ; vermilion,
vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red ; yellow, yellowish ;
yellow-green ; avocado ; bay ; beige ; blae
bluish-black or gray-blue) ; coral ; creamy ; cress
green, cresson, watercress ; hazel ; honey,
honey-colored ; hued(postnominal) ; magenta ;
maroon ; pea-green ; russet ; sage, sage-green ;
sea-green ] [Also See: chromatic , colored , dark ,
light .]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
[WordNet 1.5]
Source : WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
picturesque
adj 1: suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a
picture; "a picturesque village"
2: strikingly expressive; "a picturesque description of the
rainforest"
Source : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "picturesque":
arabesque, attractive, baroque, busy, charming, chichi, colorful,
delightful, elaborate, elegant, fancy, fetching, fine, flamboyant,
florid, flowery, freehand, frilly, fussy, graphic, high-wrought,
idyllic, interesting, intriguing, labored, lovely, luxuriant,
luxurious, monochrome, moresque, original, ornate, ostentatious,
overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overworked, overwrought,
painty, pastose, photographic, pictorial, picturable, pictural,
pleasing, polychrome, pretty, pretty-pretty, quaint, realistic,
rich, rococo, scenic, scenographic, scumbled, striking, unique,
unusual, vivid
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