| 单词 | sculpturesque |
| 释义 | sculpturesque (once / 78274 pages) adj 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 woman, 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." WORD FAMILYsculpturesque: sculpturesquely+/sculpt: sculpted, sculpting, sculptor, sculpts, sculpture/sculptor: sculptors/sculptural: sculpturally/sculpture: sculptural, sculptured, sculpturer, sculptures, sculpturesque, sculpturing USAGE EXAMPLESIt was chiefly of white velvet, whose trailing heaviness blent with purple lengths of the same lustreless and sculpturesque fabric. Fawcett, Edgar, An Ambitious Woman—A Novel(2011) By the choice of this posture the artist was enabled to model his figure on magnificent sculpturesque lines. Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), Greek Sculpture—A collection of six...(2011) As for the old west front, the coloured drawing of Mr. Collins gives an excellent idea of its rich sculpturesque beauty. Gilbert, George, Cathedral Cities of England(2010) adj resembling sculpture the sculpturesque beauty of the athletes' bodies Syn modeled, sculptural, sculptured shapely having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape |
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