picturesque

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• /ˌpɪkt͡ʃəˈɹɛsk/
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From picture + -esque, a calque of French pittoresque, from picture (“a picture, painting”).

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: живописен (živopisen) — resembling a picture or painting
• Chinese Mandarin: 繪畫般的 /绘画般的 (huìhuà bān de) — resembling a picture or painting
• Chinese Mandarin: 逼真 (bīzhēn) — resembling a picture or painting
• Chinese Mandarin: 栩栩如生 (xǔxǔrúshēng) — resembling a picture or painting
• Chinese Mandarin: 生動 /生动 (shēngdòng) — resembling a picture or painting
• Chinese Mandarin: 風景如畫 /风景如画 (fēngjǐngrúhuà) — resembling a picture or painting
• Czech: malebný — resembling a picture or painting
• Czech: pitoreskní — resembling a picture or painting
• Danish: pittoresk — resembling a picture or painting
• Danish: malerisk — resembling a picture or painting
• Dutch: pittoresk — resembling a picture or painting
• Dutch: schilderachtig — resembling a picture or painting
• Esperanto: pitoreska — resembling a picture or painting
• Finnish: pittoreski — resembling a picture or painting
• Finnish: maalauksellinen — resembling a picture or painting
• Finnish: kuvankaunis — resembling a picture or painting
• French: pittoresque — resembling a picture or painting
• Galician: pintoresco — resembling a picture or painting
• German: malerisch — resembling a picture or painting
• German: pittoresk — resembling a picture or painting
• Greek: γραφικός (grafikós) — resembling a picture or painting
• Hebrew: ציורי — resembling a picture or painting
• Hungarian: festői — resembling a picture or painting
• Hungarian: pittoreszk — resembling a picture or painting
• Ido: pitoreska — resembling a picture or painting
• Ido: piktinda — resembling a picture or painting
• Ido: pikturatra — resembling a picture or painting
• Italian: pittoresco — resembling a picture or painting
• Lithuanian: vaizdingas — resembling a picture or painting
• Macedonian: сликовит (slikovit) — resembling a picture or painting
• Macedonian: живописен (živopisen) — resembling a picture or painting
• Norwegian Bokmål: pittoresk — resembling a picture or painting
• Norwegian Bokmål: malerisk — resembling a picture or painting
• Norwegian Bokmål: naturskjønn — resembling a picture or painting
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pittoresk — resembling a picture or painting
• Norwegian Nynorsk: naturskjønn — resembling a picture or painting
• Polish: malowniczy — resembling a picture or painting
• Portuguese: pitoresco — resembling a picture or painting
• Romanian: pitoresc — resembling a picture or painting
• Russian: живопи́сный (živopísnyj) — resembling a picture or painting
• Serbo-Croatian: pitorèskan — resembling a picture or painting
• Spanish: pintoresco — resembling a picture or painting
• Swedish: pittoresk — resembling a picture or painting
• Turkish: pitoresk — resembling a picture or painting
• Turkish: resimsi — resembling a picture or painting
• Ukrainian: мальовни́чий (malʹovnýčyj) — resembling a picture or painting
• Ukrainian: живопи́сний (žyvopýsnyj) — resembling a picture or painting
• Vietnamese: đẹp như tranh — resembling a picture or painting
• Yiddish: בילדעריש (bilderish) — resembling a picture or painting