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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary pic·tur·esque \\ˌpik-chə-ˈresk\\ adjective ETYMOLOGY French & Italian; French pittoresque, from Italian pittoresco, from pittore painter, from Latin pictor, from pingere DATE 1703 1. a. resembling a picture : suggesting a painted scene b. charming or quaint in appearance 2. evoking mental images : vivid Synonyms: see graphic • pic·tur·esque·ly adverb • pic·tur·esque·ness noun English Etymology picturesque 1703, on pattern of Fr. pittoresque, a loan-word from It.pittoresco "pictorial" (1664), from pittore "painter," from L.pictorem (nom. pictor), see pictorial. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 picturesque pic·tur·esque / 7piktFE5resk / adjective1. (of a place, building, scene, etc. 地方、建筑物、景色等) pretty, especially in a way that looks old-fashioned 优美的；古色古香的 SYN quaint :
a picturesque cottage / setting / village 画儿一般的小屋/环境/村落 2. (of language 语言) producing strong mental images by using unusual words 生动的；栩栩如生的: a picturesque description of life at sea 对海上生活生动的描述 • pic·tur·esque·ly adv.: The inn is picturesquely situated on the banks of the river. 小客栈坐落在河畔,构成一幅美丽的图画。 OLT picturesque adj. ⇨ beautiful 2 Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged pic·tur·esque I. \|pikchə|resk, -ksh-\ adjective Etymology: modification (influenced by picture) (I) of French & Italian; French pittoresque, from Italian pittoresco, from pittore painter (from Latin pictor, from pictus — past participle of pingere to paint — + -or) + -esco -esque — more at paint 1. a. : like a picture : resembling or suggesting a painted scene :suitable as a subject for painting < picturesque village > < picturesque fishing fleet > < discovered grouped in picturesque attitudes about the stage — W.S.Gilbert > b. : pleasing or charming by reason of quaintness : creating informal patterns of shape, light, and color < a pleasantly picturesque style of architecture > < venerable family mansion in a highly picturesque state of semidilapidation — T.L.Peacock > c. : unusual, primitive, or markedly characteristic in appearance : quaint < modern touches without sacrificing its picturesque French colonial charm — Mary R. Johnson > < pioneering conditions that are picturesque to look back upon but were rather trying to live through — Marquis James > 2. : characterized by an interest in what is picturesque < easy for a picturesque historian to lay side by side the most glaring contrasts — Virginia Woolf > 3. : evoking mental images : vivid < picturesque epithets > < gave a picturesque account of his adventure > • pic·tur·esque·ly adverb • pic·tur·esque·ness noun -es II. noun (-s) : picturesque quality : picturesqueness ; especially : esthetic quality that evokes the atmosphere of another age, environment, or mode of existence — used with the < the novelist of contemporary manners needs to be saturated with a sense of the picturesque in modern things — Arnold Bennett |
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