Portrait vs Picturesque - What's the difference?
portrait | picturesque |
A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
* Sir J. Reynolds
(figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
(computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.
Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.
Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting. scenic
* 1900 , , Chapter I,
As adjectives the difference between portrait and picturesque
is that portrait is representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal while picturesque is resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting. scenic.As a noun portrait
is a painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.As a verb portrait
is to portray; to draw.portrait
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Alternative forms
* pourtraict (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- In portraits , the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.
- The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
Antonyms
* (print mode or selection) landscape * (print mode or selection) profileAdjective
(-)- a portrait''' bust; a '''portrait statue
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.