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Picturesque vs Spectacular - What's the difference?

picturesque | spectacular |

As adjectives the difference between picturesque and spectacular

is that picturesque is resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting. scenic while spectacular is amazing or worthy of special notice.

As a noun spectacular is

a spectacular display.

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

    External links

    * *

    spectacular

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Amazing or worthy of special notice
    • The parachutists were spectacular .
  • (dated) Related to, or having the character of, a spectacle or entertainment
    • the merely spectacular
  • * G. Hickes
    • Spectacular sports.
  • * {{quote-news, 1910, August 21, Andre Tridon, Europe Flirts with Argentina to Win Her Rich Trade, The New York Times citation
    • , passage=Those apparently insignificant events which really make history are seldom featured in the press; the merely spectacular too frequently crowds the essential out of the public sheets.}}
  • Relating to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.

    • Derived terms

    * spectacularly * unspectacular

    Related terms

    * spectacle * species * speculate

    External links

    * *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spectacular display.
  • * 2010 , "Under the volcano", The Economist , 16 Oct 2010:
    • Though business has more or less held up so far, a series of drug-related spectaculars sparked an exodus of the city's upper class this summer.