picturesque

1. 1.

   suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture

   “a picturesque village”

   Similarbeautiful
2. 2.

   strikingly expressive

   “a picturesque description of the rainforest”

   Similarcolorful

Questions about picturesque

What does picturesque mean?

picturesque means "suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in picturesque?

picturesque has 3 syllables: pic-ture-sque. The stress falls on "pic". In IPA it is /ˈpɪktʃɚəsk/.

Is picturesque a common word?

picturesque is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.