sculpturesque

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adjective

Like or suggesting sculpture: shapely, statuelike, etc.

Scrabble 26

Meanings

adjectivesculpturesque (comparative more sculpturesque, superlative most sculpturesque)

comparative more sculpturesque · superlative most sculpturesque

  1. Like or suggesting sculpture: shapely, statuelike, etc.

    ...many of the most interesting architectural and sculpturesque structures of the Rocky-Mountain system...

    1864, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, The Atlantic
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    In varying degrees the separate units of the trilogy, held together by firm bonds at once dramatic and moral, present in their fullest measure, the tragic art of the Greeks, an art at once dramatic, epic, lyric, musical, and sculpturesque.

    1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 154

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveresembling sculpture

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Bulgarian пластичен, изваян
  • пластичен (plastičen)like or suggesting sculpture
  • изваян (izvajan)like or suggesting sculpture
Finnish veistosmainen
  • veistosmainenlike or suggesting sculpture
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