Meaning

Resembling or characteristic of a statue..

Definitions by Sense

1. Resembling or characteristic of a statue.
2. (of a woman) Elegantly tall, graceful, and attractive.

Example Sentences

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.

We went out by his gate into the road, and there we made a minute examination of the statuesque passing traffic. The tops of the wheels and some of the legs of the horses of this char-a-banc, the end of the whip-lash and the lower jaw of the conductor — who was just beginning to yawn — were perceptibly in motion, but all the rest of the lumbering conveyance seemed still.

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.

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

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.

Word Forms

• more statuesque
• most statuesque

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