Artistic
adj, adv ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Having or revealing creative skill.
"He [Abraham Lincoln] leaves for America’s history and biography, so far, not only its most dramatic reminiscence—he leaves, in my opinion, the greatest, best, most characteristic, artistic, moral personality."
- 2 Relating to or characteristic of art or artists.
"Art should be independent of all clap-trap—should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like."
- 3 Aesthetically pleasing.
"To be artistic, that is, to excite the feeling of beauty effectually, the notes must not be all forte or all piano ; and the execution is the finer the more numerous the gradations—supposing these are such as to satisfy other requirements."
- 4 Euphemistic form of autistic. Internet, euphemistic, form-of, offensive
"To track gf workouts is artistic as fuck."
- 1 satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities wordnet
- 2 aesthetically pleasing wordnet
- 3 relating to or characteristic of art or artists wordnet
- 1 Artistically, in an artistic style. nonstandard
"'You've got to do it artistic. Here, like this.'"
Antonyms
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More examples"It is the most artistic picture I have ever taken."
Etymology
Borrowed from French artistique, from artiste + -ique. By surface analysis, artist + -ic.
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