Visually attractive, especially in a quaint or charming way.
The village was picturesque, with its cobblestone streets and colorful houses.
Of language or style: strikingly vivid and expressive, producing a clear mental image.
The novelist’s picturesque prose made the distant city come alive in the reader’s mind.
picturesquesubstantiv
(usually with the) An aesthetic ideal or style characterized by visually charming, varied, and picturesque qualities; the quality of being picturesque.
In eighteenth-century landscape design, gardeners sought to achieve the picturesque.
picturesqueverb
To represent, describe, or depict in a vividly picturesque manner.
The travel writer picturesqued the coastline, evoking vibrant shades of blue and green.