picture-postcardish

English

Etymology

From picture postcard +‎ -ish.

Adjective

picture-postcardish (comparative more picture-postcardish, superlative most picture-postcardish)

  1. (figurative) Picturesque and charming.
    • 1955, Dymphna Cusack, The Sun in Exile, A Novel, page 244:
      It's the first time I've ever attempted a mural and it's gone a bit picture-postcardish on me.
    • November 1985, Cincinnati Magazine‎[1], volume 19, number 2, page 180:
      Using more conventional means, and a limited charcoal and pastel palette, Grubola worries that the pretty scenes might be "too picture postcardish." Actually, a work of art can't have color that is too beautiful or lush.
    • 2015, Maggie Robinson, All Through the Night, A Holiday Story:
      The hedgerows were coated with icing sugar and the walk was rather picture-postcardish.
    • 2016, Kristin Elizabeth Clark, Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity:
      Gravel crunches under Betty's wheels. There's something a little picture-postcardish about the way the headlights shine on the front of the old farmhouse.
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