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Painterly vs Picturesque - What's the difference?

painterly | picturesque |

As adjectives the difference between painterly and picturesque

is that painterly is characteristic of a painter or paintings while picturesque is resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting scenic.

painterly

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characteristic of a painter or paintings.
  • (of a painting) Having clear brush-strokes.

    • Antonyms

    *Having clear brush-strokes: plastic, linear.

    Anagrams

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    picturesque

    English

    Alternative forms

    * picture-skew (humorous)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting. scenic
    • We looked down onto a beautiful, picturesque sunset over the ocean.
  • * 1900 , , Chapter I,
    • A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.

    Synonyms

    * quaint

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "picturesque")

    Derived terms

    * picturesquely * picturesqueness

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