Meanings
comparative more scenic · superlative most scenic · alternative obsolete scenick
- having beautiful scenery; picturesque
We have plenty of time: let's take the scenic route.
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Scenic illusions such as those caused by the haze, or the apparent diminution of scale where everything was enormous, intrigued Dutton.
1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170 - of or relating to scenery
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveused of locations; having beautiful natural scenery
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekσκηνικός“theatrical”
- Latinscēnicus
- Middle Frenchscénique
- Englishscenic
From Middle French scénique, from Latin scēnicus, alternative form of scaenicus (“of or pertaining to the stage; theatrical, scenic”), from Ancient Greek σκηνικός (skēnikós, “theatrical”), from σκηνή (skēnḗ, “stage”).
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Bulgarian живописен
- живописен (živopisen)having beautiful scenery
Catalan escènic
- escènichaving beautiful scenery
Chinese Mandarin 景色
- 景色 (jǐngsè)having beautiful scenery
Esperanto pitoreska
- pitoreskahaving beautiful scenery
Estonian maaliline
- maalilinehaving beautiful scenery
German malerisch
- malerischhaving beautiful scenery
Japanese 風光明媚な
- 風光明媚な (fūkōmeibi na)having beautiful scenery
Norwegian Bokmål naturskjønn
- naturskjønnhaving beautiful scenery
Russian живопи́сный, краси́вый
- живопи́сный (živopísnyj)having beautiful scenery
- краси́вый (krasívyj)having beautiful scenery
Spanish escénico
- escénicohaving beautiful scenery
Swedish pittoresk, sevärd
- pittoreskhaving beautiful scenery
- sevärdhaving beautiful scenery
- naturskönhaving beautiful scenery
Ukrainian мальовни́чий
- мальовни́чий (malʹovnýčyj)having beautiful scenery
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with scenic
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scenic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scenic
“scenic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scenic. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scenic,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scenic.
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