Meaning

2 senses
  1. Concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance.

    It works well enough, but the shabby exterior offends his aesthetic sensibilities.

    ästhetisch

    эстети́ческийestetíčeskij

    естети́чнийestetýčnyj

  2. (proscribed, rare)Beautiful or appealing to one's sense of beauty or art.

    The design of the lobby cannot be considered particularly aesthetic.

    ästhetisch

    эстети́чныйestetíčnyj

More definitions
  • concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste
  • aesthetically pleasing
  • relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics

Examples

29 sentences
  1. Mathematicians are creative artists, their artworks being sophisticated constructs of ideas and aesthetic proofs.

    ruМатематики – люди творчества, их работы – хитроумные конструкты идей и эстетичных доказательств. — Ooneykcall

    deMathematiker sind kreative Künstler, ihre Kunstwerke raffinierte Gedankengebäude und ästhetische Beweise. — MUIRIEL

  2. Mariko went to the aesthetic salon.

  3. Their furniture is more aesthetic than practical.

  4. What is it that satisfies your aesthetic sense?

  5. Tom has an aesthetic sense for modern painting.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
concerned with beauty:
Русский
By meaning 2
concerned with beauty:
appealing to one's sense of beauty:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
concerned with beauty:

Origin

From German Ästhetik or French esthétique, both from New Latin aesthēticus, itself borrowe

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.

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Forms

more aesthetic, most aesthetic
Comparativemore aesthetic Lesson
Superlativemost aesthetic Lesson

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

13 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
aesthetic — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto