picturesque
pic|tur|esque /p'ɪktʃər'esk/
1 [ADJ]
A picturesque place is attractive and interesting, and has no ugly modern buildings.
Alte, in the hills northwest of Loule, is the Algarve's most picturesque village.
[N-SING] the N
You can refer to picturesque things as the picturesque.
...lovers of the picturesque.
● picturesquely [ADV]
...the shanty-towns perched picturesquely on the hillsides.
2 [ADJ]
Picturesque words and expressions are unusual or poetic.
Every inn had a picturesque name-the Black Locust Inn, the Blueberry Inn.
● picturesquely [ADV] ADV with v
The historian Yakut described it picturesquely as a `mother of castles'.
1 [ADJ]
A picturesque place is attractive and interesting, and has no ugly modern buildings.
Alte, in the hills northwest of Loule, is the Algarve's most picturesque village.
[N-SING] the N
You can refer to picturesque things as the picturesque.
...lovers of the picturesque.
● picturesquely [ADV]
...the shanty-towns perched picturesquely on the hillsides.
2 [ADJ]
Picturesque words and expressions are unusual or poetic.
Every inn had a picturesque name-the Black Locust Inn, the Blueberry Inn.
● picturesquely [ADV] ADV with v
The historian Yakut described it picturesquely as a `mother of castles'.