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Picturesquely

Definition: Picturesquely

Picturesquely

Adverb

1. In a picturesque manner; "in the building trade such a trader is picturesquely described as a `brass plate' merchant".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "picturesquely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)


Usage Frequency: Picturesquely

"Picturesquely" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Picturesquely" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%2471,196

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Picturesquely

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "picturesquely": pseudo-picturesquely.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Picturesquely

Language Translations for "picturesquely"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏على نحو مثير, ‏جذاب (allurement, alluring, appealing, attractive, becoming, captivating, catching, catchy, charming, cute, desirable, ducky, engaging, enticing, fascinating, fetching, fine, inviting, magnetic, magnetizing, nice, pleasant, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sweet, taking, tasty). (various references)

   

French

  

pittoresquement. (various references)

   

German

  

malerische, malerisch (in painting, pictorial, pictorially, picturesque, poetic, poetical, poetically, quaint, quaintly, scenic). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γραφικώσ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

icturesquelypay

   

Romanian

  

pitoresc (gay, graphic, graphical, pert, picturesque, picturesqueness, scenic, spectacular). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Picturesquely

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-l-p-q-r-s-t-u-u-y"

-2 letters: picturesque.

-4 letters: cruelties, cutleries, peristyle, precisely, reticules, sculpture, sepulture, supercity, supercute.

-5 letters: celerity, cerusite, clustery, creepily, crepiest, cruelest, crustily, culprits, cultures, cupelers, cuprites, curliest, cutesier, cutpurse, epicures, epistler, epistyle, eucrites, lectures, leucites, liqueurs, peltries, periques, perlites, peytrels, picquets, pictures, piecrust, pleurisy, prelects, prequels, preslice, priestly, purlieus, quieters, quilters, quipster, receipts, reequips, reliques, reptiles.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Picturesquely


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 69 63 74 75 72 65 73 71 75 65 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "picturesquely"


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