a. [ It. pittoresco: cf. F. pittoresque. See Pictorial. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ] -- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. -- Pic`tur*esque"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ] |