Picture vs. Picturesque

Picturenoun

A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.

Picturenoun

An image; a representation as in the imagination.

Picturenoun

A painting.

Picturenoun

A photograph.

Picturenoun

(informal) A motion picture.

Picturenoun

Cinema as a form of entertainment.

Picturenoun

A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).

Picturenoun

An attractive sight.

Picturenoun

The art of painting; representation by painting.

Picturenoun

A figure; a model.

Picturenoun

Situation.

Pictureverb

(transitive) To represent in or with a picture.

Pictureverb

(transitive) To imagine or envision.

Pictureverb

(transitive) To depict.

Picturenoun

The art of painting; representation by painting.

Picturenoun

A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.

Picturenoun

An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.

Pictureverb

To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.

Picturenoun

a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;

Picturenoun

graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface;

Picturenoun

a clear and telling mental image;

Picturenoun

a situation treated as an observable object;

Picturenoun

illustrations used to decorate or explain a text;

Picturenoun

a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement;

Picturenoun

the visible part of a television transmission;

Picturenoun

a graphic or vivid verbal description;

Picturenoun

a typical example of some state or quality;

Pictureverb

imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind;

Pictureverb

show in, or as in, a picture;

Picturesqueadjective

Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting; pleasingly beautiful.

Picturesqueadjective

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.

Picturesqueadjective

suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture;

Picturesqueadjective

strikingly expressive;

Picturesque

Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed England’s leisured travellers to examine “the face of a country by the rules of picturesque beauty”.