Statuesque

Quick meaning: Statuesque is an adjective meaning Resembling or characteristic of a statue.

Meaning

Resembling or characteristic of a statue.

More Meanings

1. (of a woman) Elegantly tall, graceful, and attractive.

Example Sentences

Christy Turlington is a statuesque supermodel famous for her fashion ads.

He was by no means a bad hero to look at, if such a thing were needed. His face was pale, melancholy, statuesque—and his large enthusiastic eyes, suggested a story and a secret—perhaps a horror.

The grand, handsome, and much younger Mrs. Nettles, […] has the nose and cheekbones of a Cherokee and is so black and statuesque in her muscularity and boneyness that she seems carved by an ax from an effulgent vein of coal.

Both Cripps and Limpet were struck statuesque with a sudden apprehension of what was happening in Cripps's room, and Cripps, with a professional knowledge of the gloomy nature of Uncle Tinfish's eye, could feel it taking in the situation, including the conscientious nude, with dreadful intensity.

Synonyms for statuesque

Depending on context, synonyms include stately, shapely, tall.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tall, shapely, stately, statuelike, sculpturelike, monumentlike.

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