statuesque
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7.0
- adjective
- /ˌstætʃuˈɛsk/
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- She stood there, a statuesque figure against the sunset, her height and posture radiating confidence.
- statuesque woman
- statuesque blonde
- statuesque beauty
So I got she's statuesque, the light and I also got she's sculpted medium.
- So I got she's statuesque, the light and I also got she's sculpted medium.
- And it was, you know, in South Central LA, there are the there are a few streets that are have these enormous, beautiful, thin, statuesque palm trees that line the street.
Examples
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The cut didn't do her statuesque figure any favors, in my humble opinion.
Blog text (3) -
Carly thinks they're remarkable, statuesque, and as she approaches, she hears the plangent engines in their throats, beckoning to her.
Fiction book (1998) -
I mean, she looks very statuesque.
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I thought she was really pretty; she was very statuesque, and she put on a big white gown.
Blog text (28) -
I mention my wife in part because this whole business started with her, whose statuesque height is all in her legs.
Fiction book (1994) -
Betty was tall and thin, a statuesque older woman, with a back straight as an ironing board.
Fiction book (1994) -
For Howard, it had been enough that this cheerful, statuesque, even voluptuous woman had taken an interest in him.
Fiction book (1994) -
Quickly, we composed ourselves, and there, standing before us, was a statuesque body draped in jeweled robes of many colors.
Blog text (2) -
Mitt Romney has a statuesque build topped off with a permanently perfect quiff hairdo, and he speaks fairly well.
Blog text (29) -
"I rose up from my habitual slump in front of the computer just in time to see a statuesque brunette wearing a leopard-skin lab coat sashay into my workspace."
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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4.3
Having great beauty and causing people to feel respect
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5.7
Having an impressive, calm look that makes people feel respect
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9.9
Pleasant to look at, often in a gentle or graceful way
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6.4
Slim and graceful in a way that looks attractive
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9.9
Very beautiful to look at
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9.3
Thin and graceful in appearance, often about people or animals
Showing great stillness and dignity, as if not moving
A person or thing that looks like a statue and has a graceful, well-formed shape
A tall woman who looks grand and dignified
Grand and serious in a way that makes people respect it
How Graceful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Statuesque comes from statue and the ending -esque, which means 'in the style of' and you can see the same ending in picturesque. So statuesque describes someone tall, graceful and dignified, like a standing statue.