picturesquely

1. 1.

   in a picturesque manner

   “in the building trade such a trader is picturesquely described as a `brass plate' merchant”

Questions about picturesquely

What does picturesquely mean?

picturesquely means "in a picturesque manner".

How many syllables are in picturesquely?

picturesquely has 5 syllables and divides as pic-tu-re-sque-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is picturesquely a common word?

picturesquely is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.