Picturesque vs Prepossessing - What's the difference?
picturesque | prepossessing |
Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting. scenic
* 1900 , , Chapter I,
Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.
*1836 , Dickens, Sketches by Boz ,
*:Our curate is a young gentleman of such prepossessing appearance, and fascinating manners, that within one month after his first appearance in the parish, half the young-lady inhabitants were melancholy with religion, and the other half, desponding with love.
*1852 , H. B. Stowe,
*:These natural graces in the quadroon are often united with beauty of the most dazzling kind, and in almost every case with a personal appearance prepossessing and agreeable.
As adjectives the difference between picturesque and prepossessing
is that picturesque is resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting scenic while prepossessing is tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.picturesque
English
Alternative forms
* picture-skew (humorous)Adjective
(en adjective)- We looked down onto a beautiful, picturesque sunset over the ocean.
- 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.