Scenic vs. Picturesque

Scenicadjective

having beautiful scenery; picturesque

Scenicadjective

of or relating to scenery

Scenicadjective

dramatic; theatrical

Scenicnoun

a depiction of scenery

Scenicnoun

(informal) a scenic artist; a person employed to design backgrounds for theatre etc.

Scenicadjective

Of or pertaining to scenery; of the nature of scenery; theatrical.

Scenicadjective

used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery;

Scenicadjective

of or relating to the stage or stage scenery;

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”.