unpictorialadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnpɪkˈtɔːrɪəl/, U.S. /ˌənpɪkˈtɔriəl/ Not pictorial.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] > not picturesque
unpicturesque1755
unpictorial1814
1814 Monthly Mag. June 437/2 He too has placed the judge in the same ungraceful and unpictorial position.
1860 I. Taylor Spirit Hebr. Poetry (1873) 80 Giving to the aerial aspect of Palestine that clear, sharp, and unpictorial visibility which is now its characteristic.
1947 F. Antal Florentine Painting ii. ii. 192 The colouring is unpictorial, the local colours being merely juxtaposed in strong contrasts.
2006 Times 14 Nov. 18/2 Some of it gets on the 24-hour news but most of it, being unpictorial, doesn't.
Derivatives
unpicˈtorially adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adverb] > unpicturesquely
unpicturesquely1817
unpictorially1824
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 313/1 The historian can relate the most picturesque as unpictorially as the poet can describe the most unpictorial poetically.
1992 Leonardo 25 315/1 A homeomorphism may be described piecemeal and unpictorially.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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