sculpturesque
Americanadjective
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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."
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Example Sentences
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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
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
Born in Ireland in 1878, his style was formed in Dublin, the Slade School, and the New English Art Club group�a vigorous, sculpturesque plein-air tradition, intent on the solution of technical problems.
From Time Magazine Archive
Delightful for a sense of air through the cool and spacious room, and for the sculpturesque solidity of the group composed of the woman, the churn, and the cat.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various
Hanmer is a very sculpturesque passionless high-minded and amiable man ... this coldness, as you see it, is part of him.
From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert
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