as in vivid
producing a mental picture through clear and impressive description
wrote a picturesque tale of their journey across the country
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Recent Examples of picturesque
Considered one of the state’s best beach towns, Biloxi is known for its picturesque sand and calm waters that are protected by barrier islands just south of the beach in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 23 May 2025
In 2009, Côme opened his own picturesque vanilla business, La Vanilleraie, a tourist attraction on a historic estate, Le Grand Hazier, dating back to the 1670s, and still active as a sugar plantation.
—Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2025
The grounds are punctuated by a quaint and picturesque historic water tower from the days when a farmer owned the land in the 1940s, Bruce said.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 17 May 2025
The three fires erupted on Sunday and Monday in a sparsely populated part of the Arrowhead region of Minnesota, about 50 miles west of Lake Superior and roughly the same distance south of the picturesque Boundary Waters approaching Canada.
—Jeff Ernst, New York Times, 17 May 2025
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 23 May 2025
In 2009, Côme opened his own picturesque vanilla business, La Vanilleraie, a tourist attraction on a historic estate, Le Grand Hazier, dating back to the 1670s, and still active as a sugar plantation.
—Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2025
The grounds are punctuated by a quaint and picturesque historic water tower from the days when a farmer owned the land in the 1940s, Bruce said.
—David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 17 May 2025
The three fires erupted on Sunday and Monday in a sparsely populated part of the Arrowhead region of Minnesota, about 50 miles west of Lake Superior and roughly the same distance south of the picturesque Boundary Waters approaching Canada.
—Jeff Ernst, New York Times, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for picturesque
Adjective
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Some consumers are likely choosing their cars’ colors to emphasize timeliness, as more vivid hues tend to come and go more quickly out of fashion.—
Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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This is not a new phenomena of the world feeling so vivid, so extreme, that finding an angle of approach is hard.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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These studies were also really an investigation of color, thinking of the way graphic scores can work and trying to convey a mood or tone through color theory.—
Caitlin Woolsey,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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On the opening day of Combs’s trial, the jury was shown graphic video of him physically assaulting Ventura in a California hotel in 2016.—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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Instead of an initial setup tutorial, Surfshark explains every feature in detail with descriptive labels for each element.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
19 May 2025
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The result is this nonfiction murder mystery, whose Cajun setting is captured in a descriptive, sometimes lyrical, style worthy of James Lee Burke.—
Sandra Dallas,
Denver Post,
18 May 2025
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“Picturesque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picturesque. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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