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unpicturesque
adjective
uk /ˌʌn.pɪk.tʃərˈesk/ us /ˌʌn.pɪk.tʃərˈesk/
(of a place or thing) ugly or not attractive:
The funfair was in the rather unpicturesque setting of the town-centre car park.
The landscape was dotted with unpicturesque farm buildings and bungalows.
Opposite
picturesque
She was brought up in an unpicturesque village in the northwest.
The cafe overlooked the intersection of two broad, busy, unpicturesque streets.
The crowds can be sparse in this unpicturesque part of the city.
The monument overlooks a picturesque region of wooded hills and is not unpicturesque itself, surrounded as it is by wildflowers.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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back end
be no oil paintingidiom
be not much to look atidiom
bleakly
bleakness
gopping
gracelessly
have a face like the back end of a busidiom
hideous
hideousness
pretty-pretty
putridly
reptilian
scrappily
scrappy
unpretty
unshapely
unsightly
vulgarity
vulgarly
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