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Definition: Scenic |
ScenicAdjective1. Used of locations; having beautiful natural scenery; "scenic drives". 2. Of or relating to the stage or stage scenery; "scenic design". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scenic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
The Drama | Adjective: dramatic; theatric, theatrical; scenic, histrionic, comic, tragic, buskined, farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic; stagy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scenic |
| English words defined with "scenic": Alps ♦ circuitous ♦ devious, drive ♦ parkway ♦ roundabout ♦ scene painter, scenic artist ♦ the Alps. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scenic": air quality related value ♦ cleat line, COLORIST, PHOTOGRAPHY ♦ DIRECTOR, STAGE ♦ electrician, master, entrance guard, EXHIBIT ARTIST ♦ flat piece ♦ GUIDE, ESTABLISHMENT, guide, tour ♦ LOCATION MANAGER ♦ PARK SUPERINTENDENT, profile block, profile board, projected scenery ♦ Scene Painters, ship purser, SIGHT-EFFECTS SPECIALIST, supervisory park ranger ♦ throw line, tinter, photograph, TOURIST-INFORMATION ASSISTANT. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Scenic" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (acting, scenic, stage, stagy, theatrical). |
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Screenplays | And this site was chosen for its seclusion and scenic beauty (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) I guess sometimes you just have to take the scenic route (It Was Always Me; writing credit: Amit Vaidya) | |
Tongue Twisters | Shelter for six sick scenic sightseers. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Scenic Sweden (1947) A Scenic Treasure Chest (1927) Scenic Distortions (1922) The Scenic Route (1978) | |
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![]() | Phragmites, or common reed - although scenic, can be invasive nuisance species. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | Scenic northcentral Montana. Credit: Gary Kramer. |
![]() | Wetlands in scenic northcentral Montana. Credit: Gary Kramer. | ![]() | Scenic landscape. Credit: Gary Kramer. |
![]() | Scenic sunset looking onto Lake Superior in the Superior National Forest, MN. Credit: USDA. | ![]() | Scenic view of farmland with dairy cattle grazing. Credit: USDA. |
![]() | Scenic Bluberry Hill Inn in the Green Mts NF, VT. Credit: USDA. | Scenic Gamlin LakeCouer d'Alene Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Karen Wattenmaker. | |
Scenic Mineral Ridge TrailCouer d'Alene Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Karen Wattenmaker. | ![]() | Ozark National Scenic Riverways. Credit: NPS. | |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Scenic river" by Kevin Rohr Commentary: "My wife looks out across the river early in the am." | "Scenic Lake" by Peter Skadberg Commentary: "Northern Minnesota Lake in fall." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Business | The British are fond of scenic drives with the Grand Canyon, a popular fly/drive or RV rental destination. (references) | |
Foreign tourism has experienced a dramatic and sustained growth over the past few years and domestic tourism is set to grow steadily off a large base. South Africa has the climate, scenic qualities, cultural diversity and eco-tourism attractions for tourist. (references) | ||
The opportunity for the development of this market exists in combination with activities and attractions of a destination, such as accessible beaches, scenic drives, or city shopping, although a small specialty niche exists for historical travel on its own. The American Civil War and the Native American Indian are two themes that are growing in popularity. (references) | ||
Economic History | New Zealand | Tranzrail has recently sold some of its scenic passenger services. (references) |
Cayman Islands | Natural resources: Scenic beaches and underwater attractions, favorable climate. (references) | |
Sao Tome and Principe | The scenic islands have potential for tourism, and the government is attempting to improve its rudimentary tourist industry infrastructure. (references) | |
Travel | Spain | The "paradores," a chain of national hotels, offer good accommodations, usually in very scenic and/or historic settings. (references) |
Costa Rica | The perennial spring climate, scenic beauty, housing, food, and ancillary services make Costa Rica a comfortable place to live. (references) | |
Chad | The "campement de Waza" is a hotel with a collection of small stone cottages arranged down the side of a hill offering a scenic restaurant/bar overlooking the park. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Scenic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.27% of the time. "Scenic" is used about 275 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.27% | 273 | 17,765 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.73% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 275 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Scenic, SD |
Expressions using "scenic": scenic artist ♦ scenic beauty ♦ scenic effects ♦ scenic motorway ♦ Scenic Oaks ♦ scenic railway ♦ scenic road ♦ scenic rout. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "scenic": non-scenic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "scenic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | skenik (scenical, stagey, stagy), teatral (camp, scenical, stagey, stagy, theatrical), piktoresk (colorful, colourful, graphic, graphical, pictorial, picturesque, scenical). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسرحي (dramatic, dramaturgic, scenical, stagy, theatrical, thespian), مشهدي (scenical, spectacular), تمثيلي (histrionic, representative, scenical), تصويري (graphic, graphical, photographic, pictorial, picturesque, programmatic, scenical), ديكوري (decorative, scenical). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сценичен (acting, histrionic, playable, presentable, theatrical), театрален (dramatic, histrionic, stagy, theatrical), живописен (graphic, old world, pictorial, picturesque), панорамен (panoramic). (various references) | |
Chinese | 风景 (landscape, scenery). (various references) | |
Czech | scénický (scenical), malebný (picturesque, quaint, scenical), divadelní (scenical, spectacular, theatrical). (various references) | |
Danish | scenisk-fluktuerende forløb af LSD-rus (scenic-fluctuating course of ebrietas, scenic-fluctuating course of narcotism), motorvej gennem en park (greenway, parkway, scenic motorway), landskabelig værdi (amenity value of the landscape, scenic value of the landscape), åbning op for områder ved hjælp af turistveje (opening up of scenic areas to the public by means of tourist routes). (various references) | |
Dutch | waarde van het landschap (amenity value of the landscape, scenic value of the landscape), toeristische route (scenic route), ontsluiting door toeristische routes (opening up of scenic areas to the public by means of tourist routes), landschapsreservaat (scenic reserve), hoofdverkeersader gewoonlijk gelegen in een parklandschap (greenway, parkway, scenic motorway), grote landschapseenheid (large area of scenic beauty), coulissenlandschap (scenic landscape), belevingswaarde van het landschap (amenity value of the landscape, scenic value of the landscape). (various references) | |
Farsi | مجسم کننده , نمایشی (Dramatic, Expository), صحنه ای , خوش منظر (Comely, Seemly, Spiffy). (various references) | |
Finnish | näyttämöllinen. (various references) | |
French | scénique (scenical). (various references) | |
German | szenisch, landschaftlich (regional). (various references) | |
Greek | σκηνικόσ, φυσικόσ (natural, normal, physical, physicist, unstudied), θεαματικόσ (spectacular), θεατρικόσ (histrionic, stagy, theatrical). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תפאורתי (decorative, scenical), נופי (scenical). (various references) | |
Hungarian | színpadias (scenical, stagey, stagy, theatrical), színpadi (alarums and excursions, histrionic, scenical, theatrical). (various references) | |
Indonesian | permai (beautiful, ornate, pretty), indah (aesthetical, chic, decorative, exquisite, gorgeous, picturesque, posh). (various references) | |
Italian | scenico (scenical, stage), pittoresco (colorful, colourful, picturesque, quaint, scenical), panoramico (panoramic, scenical), del paesaggio. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 風致地区 (landscape area, scenic zone), 風致林 (scenic forest), 風光絶佳 (scenic beauty), 風光明媚の地 (place of scenic beauty), 風光明媚 (scenic or natural beauty), 景勝の地 (place of scenic beauty), 名所旧跡 (scenic and historic places), 名勝 (place of scenic beauty, the sights), 形勝 (scenic beauty), 山紫水明 (scenic beauty), 勝地 (beauty spot, scenic spot), 勝景 (scenic view), スエズ運河 (multistory parking garage, scarf, scarlet, scenic mountain road, scout, skirt, sky, sky blue, sky mate, sky restaurant, skydiver, skydiving, skyjack, Skylab, sky-laboratory, skylark, skylight, skyline, skyscraper, squash, student discount air ticket, Suez Canal, sweat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょうけい (a short break or breather, accession, aspiration, brief recess, commerce and economics, expedient, fine scenery, hieroglyphics, inheritance, lane, longing, path, recess, scenic view, short rest, shortcut, subtotal, succession, type of character representing pictures), しょうち (acceptance, acknowledgment, admitting, agreement, assent, awareness, beauty spot, calling together, compliance, consent, invitation, scenic spot, shallow wisdom, superficial knowledge), さんしすいめい (scenic beauty), ふうこうぜっか (scenic beauty), ふうこうめいびのち (place of scenic beauty), ふうこうめいび (scenic or natural beauty), ふうちりん (scenic forest), ふうちちく (landscape area, scenic zone), めいしょきゅうせき (scenic and historic places), めいしょう (great or famous commander, master craftsman, name, place of scenic beauty, skillful worker, the sights), スカイライン (scenic mountain road, skyline), けいしょうのち (place of scenic beauty), けいしょう (accession, alarm bell, court nobles and state ministers, figure, fire bell, image, inheritance, minor illness, minor injury, nimble, picturesque scenery, scenic beauty, shape, slight, strong and nimble, succession, title of honour, trifling). (various references) | |
Korean | 경치가 좋은. (various references) | |
Manx | reayrtagh (conspicuous, visual). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enicscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | teatral (dramatic, histrionic, scenical, stagey, stagy, theatrical), que conta uma história (scenical), pitoresco (colorful, colourful, pictoresque, pictorial, picturesque, scenical), pictoresco (colorful, colourful, pictoresque, pictorial, scenical), exagerado (a bit thick, exaggerated, exaggerative, fulsome, gaudy, outre, overdone, scenical, stagey, stagy, steep), dramático (dramatic, scenical, tragic), cênico (scenical, theatrical), afetado (affected, bijou, conceited, coxcombical, dandified, dollish, far-fetched, finical, foppish, forced, fulsome, mannered, miminy-piminy, niminy-piminy, pompous, precious, pretentious, prim, scenical, smug, stilted, theatrical, wiredrawn). (various references) | |
Romanian | scenic (acting, stage, stagy, theatrical), teatral (affected, dramatic, histrionic, spectacular, stagy, theatrical, theatrically), pitoresc (gay, graphic, graphical, pert, picturesque, picturesquely, picturesqueness, spectacular), dramatic (acting, dramatic, dramatically, theatrical, thespian), de teatru (stage, theatrical), afectat (affected, affectedly, Arty, curious, demure, demurely, euphuistic, far fetched, finical, finicking, gushing, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, lackadaisical, La-di-da, mannered, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, preciously, pretty, primly, recherche, self conscious, stilted, studied, swollen, theatrical). (various references) | |
Russian | живописный (graphic, pictorial, picturesque, scenical, sightly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | scenski (scenical), pozorišni (scenical, stage, stagey, stagy, theater, theatre, theatrical), lep (beauteous, beautiful, bonny, dreamy, fair, fine, goodly, handsome, nice, pretty, scenical), dramski (scenical, thespian). (various references) | |
Spanish | pintoresco (lurid, picturesque, quaint, scenical, vivid), espectacular (scenical, spectacular), escénico (scenical), dramático (dramatic, scenical, stagey, stagy, sweeping), del paisaje (scenical). (various references) | |
Swedish | scenisk (scenical, theatrical), scen- (scenical), teater- (histrionic, scenical, theatrical), naturskön (scenical). (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับฉาก, เกี่ยวกับภาพภูมิประเทศ (scenical, scenically), น่าดึงดูดใจ (fascinated, jazzy, sensational). (various references) | |
Turkish | sahne ile ilgili, sahne (arena, boards, scene, set, setting, site, stage), manzaralı, manzara (landscape, lookout, panorama, Paysage, prospect, raree show, scene, scenery, sight, spectacle, view, vista), doğa filmi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сценічний (histrionic, stage, theatrical), театральний (dramatic, histrionic, melodramatic, spectacular, stagey, stagy, theatral, theatrical), награний (histrionic, scenical), бундючний (bombastic, cavalier, chilly, cockish, flatulent, haughty, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-hearted, mouth-filling, overly, pompous, puffed up, scenical, snobbish, snobby, swollen). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vờ vĩnh (scenical), màu mè (affected, affectedly, apish, butter, mincing, scenical, theatrical). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scenic": scenical, scenically. (additional references) | |
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"Scenic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cencio, ceni, Scanie, sceenic, scei, sceinc, Sceli, scenica, sceny, Schnirch, scienc, scinc, Scolnick, seenic, senic, senice, senick. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scenic" (pronounced sē"nik) |
| 4 | -ē" n i k | neotenic. |
| 3 | -n i k | allophonic, arsenic, avionic, beatnik, botanic, bubonic, calisthenic, carcinogenic, catatonic, chronic, clinic, conic, cynic, demonic, diatonic, Dominick, electronic, embryonic, ethnic, eugenic, galvanic, ganglionic, germanic, gnomonic, hallucinogenic, harmonic, hedonic, hegemonic, histrionic, hydroponic, hypersonic, hypertonic, inorganic, ionic, ironic, isoelectronic, isotonic, kibbutznik, laconic, leptonic, manic, masonic, mechanic, messianic, microelectronic, mnemonic, monoclinic, monophonic, multiethnic, nucleonic, oceanic, organic, orogenic, ovonic, panic, pathogenic, pharaonic, philharmonic, phonic, photogenic, planktonic, platonic, plutonic, pneumonic, polyphonic, polytechnic, psychogenic, pyrotechnic, refusenik, sardonic, satanic, schizophrenic, sonic, splenic, Sputnik, supersonic, symphonic, synchronic, technic, tectonic, telegenic, telephonic, Titanic, tonic, transgenic, transoceanic, tunic, tympanic, ultrasonic, volcanic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-n-s" | |
-1 letter: cines, since. | |
-2 letters: cine, ices, nice, sice, sine. | |
-3 letters: cis, ens, ice, ins, sec, sei, sen, sic, sin. | |
-4 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-n-s" | |
+1 letter: cinches, concise, science. | |
+2 letters: calcines, chicanes, chickens, chicness, chinches, clinches, cocaines, conceits, conchies, conciser, cornices, croceins, licences, scenical, sciences, speccing, synectic, technics, vaccines, zecchins. | |
+3 letters: accessing, accession, accidents, arccosine, cadencies, canticles, catechins, chanciest, chicaners, cicerones, cinctures, clinchers, cocineras, cockiness, coercions, cogencies, coincides, colicines, conceives, concisely, concisest, conscribe, convinces, coprinces, corniches, cornicles, crescendi, croceines, culicines, decencies, desiccant, economics, ecumenics, encaustic, encircles, enclitics, encyclics, licencees, licencers, lucencies, mechanics, mischance, nescience, occidents, pinchecks, precincts, recencies, succinate, syncretic, tectonics, unicycles, vacancies, vaccinees, zecchinos. | |
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