picturesque

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

picturesque (comparative more picturesque, superlative most picturesque)

Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting; pleasingly beautiful.
We looked down onto a beautiful, picturesque sunset over the ocean.
- 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, “A Stranger from South Carolina”, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 3:
  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.
- 1946 March and April, R. A. H. Weight, “Euston to the North-West”, in Railway Magazine, page 71:
  A dear old lady said she thought the ancient castle at Conway most picturesque, but that it was a pity they put it so close to the railway!
- 2024 November 21, Helen Regan, Isaac Yee and Eve Brennan, “Australian teens among six tourists dead as countries warn of suspected methanol poisonings in Laos”, in CNN‎:
  The Australian teens, both from Melbourne, were enjoying a backpacking trip when they became ill after a night out in Vang Vieng.
  The picturesque rural town in northern Laos has long been a popular backpacking spot.
(figurative, by extension) Strikingly graphic or vivid; having striking and vivid imagery.
picturesque language

resembling a picture or painting

Bulgarian: живописен (bg) (živopisen)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 繪畫般的 / 绘画般的 (huìhuà bān de), 逼真 (zh) (bīzhēn), 栩栩如生 (zh) (xǔxǔrúshēng), 生動 / 生动 (zh) (shēngdòng), (picturesque scenery) 風景如畫 / 风景如画 (fēngjǐngrúhuà)
Czech: malebný (cs), pitoreskní
Danish: pittoresk, malerisk
Dutch: pittoresk (nl), schilderachtig (nl)
Esperanto: pitoreska
Finnish: pittoreski (fi), maalauksellinen (fi), kuvankaunis (fi)
French: pittoresque (fr)
Galician: pintoresco
German: (especially of nature) malerisch (de); (especially of settlements) pittoresk (de)
Greek: γραφικός (el) (grafikós)
Hebrew: ציורי
Hungarian: festői (hu), pittoreszk (hu)
Ido: pitoreska (io), piktinda (io), pikturatra (io)
Italian: pittoresco (it)
Lithuanian: vaizdingas
Macedonian: сликовит (slikovit), живописен (živopisen)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: pittoresk, malerisk, naturskjønn

Nynorsk: pittoresk, naturskjønn
Polish: malowniczy (pl)
Portuguese: pitoresco (pt)
Romanian: pitoresc (ro)
Russian: живопи́сный (ru) (živopísnyj)
Serbo-Croatian: pitorèskan (sh)
Spanish: pintoresco (es)
Swedish: pittoresk (sv)
Turkish: pitoresk (tr), resimsi (tr)
Ukrainian: мальовни́чий (malʹovnýčyj), живопи́сний (žyvopýsnyj)
Vietnamese: đẹp như tranh
Yiddish: בילדעריש (bilderish)

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