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n. - Visually vivid and pleasing; The quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid.

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Usage examples (36)
  • Adjective : a picturesque fishing village. ,a picturesque description of the Brazilian jungle. ,a picturesque hat
  • No very highly imaginative mind is surely necessary to conjure up a scene of wonderful picturesqueness from the foregoing.
  • "Tony," she said, "the quality which I admire most in a donkey-driver, besides truthfulness and picturesqueness, is imagination."
  • The Thirty-Years War abounds with what may be called picturesqueness in its events, and still more in the condition of the people who carried it on.
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