different between picturesque vs zestful

English

Alternative forms

• picture-skew (humorous)

Etymology

From picture +? -esque, a calque of Italian pittoresco, from pittura (“a picture, painting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?kt?????sk/

Adjective

picturesque (comparative more picturesque, superlative most picturesque)

1. 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. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     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.

2. Strikingly graphic or vivid; having striking and vivid imagery.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:picturesque.

Synonyms

• quaint
• scenic

Derived terms

• picturesquely
• picturesqueness

Translations

Further reading

• picturesque in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• picturesque in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

zest +? -ful

Adjective

zestful (comparative more zestful, superlative most zestful)

1. Having a spirited love of life; ebullient.
   • 1957, Arthur Upfield, Bony Buys a Woman, London: Heinemann, 1967, Chapter 13, p. 117,^[1]

     Debonair youth! The spurs, the wide felt hat, the open shirt, the belt holding the array of small pouches, including a holstered revolver, the delight in the long stock-whip having a bright green silk cracker to produce loud reports, ranging from slow rifle fire to the rat-tat-tat of a machine-gun, all told the story of zestful youth.

2. Eager, enthusiastic.
   • 1933, H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1935, Book 1, § 10, p. 77,^[2]

     […] there appeared a narrowly patriotic government, which presently developed into an aggressive, vindictive and pitiless dictatorship, and set itself at once to the zestful persecution of the unfortunate ethnic minorities […]

   • 1968, Donald Barthelme, “The Dolt” in Sixty Stories, New York: Dutton, 1982, p. 94,^[3]

     […] the former priest, by now habituated to military life, and even zestful for it, enlisted under the new young king, with the rank of captain.

Derived terms

• zestfully
• zestfulness

Translations

Anagrams

• Fultzes, Zufelts