Picturesque vs Storybooklike - What's the difference?
picturesque | storybooklike |
Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting. scenic
* 1900 , , Chapter I,
Like a storybook, or a traditional story; fabular; ideal; picturesque.
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As adjectives the difference between picturesque and storybooklike
is that picturesque is resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting scenic while storybooklike is like a storybook, or a traditional story; fabular; ideal; picturesque.picturesque
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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.
Synonyms
* quaintQuotations
* (English Citations of "picturesque")Derived terms
* picturesquely * picturesquenessExternal links
* *storybooklike
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Adjective
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