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unartistic

UK/ˌʌnɑːˈtɪstɪk/US/ˌʌnɑɹˈtɪstɪk/

unartistic adjective: not artistic.

Adjective

unartistic (comparative more unartistic, superlative most unartistic)

  1. Not artistic.
    • If you have never had it, and you are devoid of an interest in what is truly beautiful, then you will belong to the unartistic group of people.1942, Mildred Graves Ryan, Your Clothes and Personality, D. Appleton, pages 107–8
    • If such works—altered by ritual use, incorporating the most “unartistic” materials from the traditional Western viewpoint, and as far from illusionistic in style as Picasso could ever have seen—can appear “reasonable” to a Western artist, that artist has performed an almost magical act of...1990, Patricia Leighten, “The White Pearl and L’Art nègre : Politics, Primitivism, and Anticolonialism”, in The Art Bulletin, volume 74, number 4, →DOI, page 623+

Forms of unartistic

comparativemore unartistic
superlativemost unartistic

Origin of unartistic

From un- + artistic.

Words formed from unartistic

Words that rhyme with unartistic

29 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about unartistic

What does unartistic mean?
Unartistic means not artistic.
What part of speech is unartistic?
Unartistic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce unartistic?
Unartistic is pronounced /ˌʌnɑːˈtɪstɪk/ (UK).

Words near unartistic in the dictionary

  1. unarticulate
  2. unarticulated
  3. unartificial
  4. unartificiality
  5. unartificially
  6. unartistic
  7. unartistical
  8. unartistically
  9. unartistlike
  10. unary
  11. unary operation

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