sculpturesque
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of sculpturesque
Explanation
Things that are sculpturesque look like sculptures. You might describe your beautiful new laptop, with its sleek lines, as sculpturesque. The adjective sculpturesque is a good way to talk about things that resemble statues or sculptures. Your elaborate sandcastle could be sculpturesque, and the ancient rocks along the coast are also sculpturesque. A beautiful person, an elaborate collage, or your new car could all be described as sculpturesque. A more common word with the same meaning is sculptural, and both have the same Latin root, sculpere, "to carve or engrave."
Vocabulary lists containing sculpturesque
Example Sentences
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I have seen and studied the best models in this country and abroad, but none of them has possessed the perfection of sculpturesque beauty found in William Wright.
From Time Magazine Archive
He paused with a neoclassical manner which combined the flowing, controlled line of Raphael and a sculpturesque mass and weight new to painting.
From Time Magazine Archive
The picturesque, in short, domineers over English tragedy; the sculpturesque, or the statuesque, over the Grecian.
From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg
As for the old west front, the coloured drawing of Mr. Collins gives an excellent idea of its rich sculpturesque beauty.
From Cathedral Cities of England by George Gilbert
They aim, with unflinching consistency, at a realization of beauty so abstract that the forms by which it is interpreted to the imagination are almost wholly sculpturesque.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
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