aesthetic
UK/iːsˈθɛ.tɪk//ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/
aesthetic adjective: concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance.
Adjective
aesthetic (comparative more aesthetic, superlative most aesthetic)
- Concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance.
- It works well enough, but the shabby exterior offends his aesthetic sensibilities.
- If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare,
You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience, act I
- Beautiful or appealing to one's sense of beauty or art.
- The design of the lobby cannot be considered particularly aesthetic.
- The station was rebuilt yet again by British Rail in 1967, when large chunks of the 19th century station were demolished and replaced with 'modern' buildings that were less than aesthetic.2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Wakefield Kirkgate”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28
- Synonyms:
- aesthetical, tasteful
- Antonyms:
- inaesthetic, unaesthetic
Noun
aesthetic (plural aesthetics)
- The study of art or beauty.
- That which appeals to the senses.
- The set of artistic motifs defining a collection of things, especially works of art; more broadly, their aura or “vibe”.
- Her most recent works have this quirky, nonchalant aesthetic inspired by ’90s teen culture.
- I really like the goth aesthetic you've got going there.
aesthetic meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
aesthetic in Tamil
- அழகுணர்ச்சி சார்ந்த, கலைநயமுடைய, சுவை நலஞ்சான்ற, அழகியல், அழகுணர்வாளர்
aesthetic in Marathi
- सौंदर्यात्मक
aesthetic in Urdu
- ذوق جمال رکھنے والا, جمالیات سے مُتَعلق, خوش ذوقی پر مبنی
aesthetic in Bengali
- সৌন্দর্য, শিল্পের সমঝদার, নান্দনিক
More languagesFewer languages
- aesthetic in Malayalam
- സൗന്ദര്യാത്മകമായ, രസവാസനയെ സംബന്ധിച്ച, രാസ, രസാനുഭൂതി തരുന്ന
- aesthetic in Kannada
- ಅರಿವಿನ, ಅಂದಚಂದೆಣಿಕ
- aesthetic in Nepali
- एस्थेटिक
- aesthetic in Malay
- estetik
- aesthetic in Indonesian
- estetik, estetis
Examples of aesthetic in a sentence
- It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof.1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:
- But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268:
- A thin, crunchy lemon and thyme rosti was essentially the pimped-up aesthetic of the Kettle chip.2011 December 18, Jay Rayner, “Restaurant review: Aurelia”, in The Observer, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2022:
Synonyms of aesthetic
Antonyms
Forms of aesthetic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more aesthetic |
| superlative | most aesthetic |
| alternative US | esthetic |
| alternative form (dated) | æsthetic |
| Noun | |
| plural | aesthetics |
Origin of aesthetic
From German Ästhetik or French esthétique, both from New Latin aesthēticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós, “of sense perception”), from αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “to feel”); analysable as aesthe(sis) + -tic. Cognates include Proto-Germanic *awiz (“obvious”), Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Latin audiō.
Words formed from aesthetic
- aesthetic attraction
- aestheticisation
- aestheticise
- aestheticism
- aestheticist
- aestheticity
- aestheticize
- aestheticness
- antiaesthetic
- dysaesthetic
- ethnoaesthetic
- neuroaesthetic
- nonaesthetic
- phonoaesthetic
- psycho-aesthetic
- aesthete
- aesthetically
- aesthetician
- aesthetic information
- aesthetics
- aesthetic surgeon
- aesthetic surgery
- aesthetisation
- non-aesthetic
- Y2K aesthetic
Phrases with aesthetic
Words that rhyme with aesthetic
- sympathetic
- hermetic
- kinetic
- athletic
- genetic
- magnetic
- energetic
- pathetic
- syndetic
- diabetic
- diaeretic
- frenetic
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- mimetic
- peripatetic
- planetic
- poetic
- tonetic
- abietic
- anesthetic
- anoetic
- anuretic
- apathetic
- ascetic
- auxetic
- cybernetic
- dietetic
- epithetic
- Helvetic
- parasympathetic
- parenthetic
- phyletic
- Sidetic
- splenetic
- synaeretic
- synizetic
- tabetic
- threnetic
- alexipyretic
- algetic
- alphabetic
- alphametic
- amuletic
- analgetic
- anchoretic
- anoretic
- aphetic
- aporetic
- archegetic
- asyndetic
- auletic
- autonoetic
- balletic
- Baphometic
- cardioparasympathetic
- cardiosympathetic
- cometic
- conspiracy-theoretic
- cynegetic
- diagenetic
- diakinetic
Questions about aesthetic
- What does aesthetic mean?
- Aesthetic means concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance.
- What is aesthetic in Tamil?
- Aesthetic in Tamil is அழகுணர்ச்சி சார்ந்த, கலைநயமுடைய, சுவை நலஞ்சான்ற. See Aesthetic meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use aesthetic in a sentence?
- It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof.
- What part of speech is aesthetic?
- Aesthetic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce aesthetic?
- Aesthetic is pronounced /iːsˈθɛ.tɪk/ (UK).
Words near aesthetic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: aesthetic (page history and authors); aesthetic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aesthetic (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); aesthetic (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aesthetic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aesthetic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); aesthetic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aesthetic (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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