Picturesque

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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