The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Picturesque \Pic`tur*esque"\, a. [It. pittoresco: cf. F.
pittoresque. See Pictorial.]
Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture;
representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate
to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which
is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic;
vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque
language.
[1913 Webster]
What is picturesque as placed in relation to the
beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the
characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. --De
Quincey.
[1913 Webster] -- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. --
Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
colorful \colorful\ adj.
1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent,
shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed,
empurpled]
Syn: colourful.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy,
jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque]
[WordNet 1.5]
3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber,
brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn,
reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor,
bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue,
bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful,
blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary,
canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored,
earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green,
dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender,
lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley,
multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured,
painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied,
varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored;
ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red,
scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown,
snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored,
snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel,
brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color,
straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine;
tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion,
vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish;
yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae
bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress
green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey,
honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta;
maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
[WordNet 1.5]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "picturesque":
arabesque, attractive, baroque, busy, charming, chichi, colorful,
delightful, elaborate, elegant, fancy, fetching, fine, flamboyant,
florid, flowery, freehand, frilly, fussy, graphic, high-wrought,
idyllic, interesting, intriguing, labored, lovely, luxuriant,
luxurious, monochrome, moresque, original, ornate, ostentatious,
overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored, overworked, overwrought,
painty, pastose, photographic, pictorial, picturable, pictural,
pleasing, polychrome, pretty, pretty-pretty, quaint, realistic,
rich, rococo, scenic, scenographic, scumbled, striking, unique,
unusual, vivid