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ARTISTIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does artistic mean?
• ARTISTIC (adjective)
The adjective ARTISTIC has 3 senses:
1. relating to or characteristic of art or artists
2. satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities
3. aesthetically pleasing
Familiarity information: ARTISTIC used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or characteristic of art or artists
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
his artistic background
Pertainym:
artist (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)
Derivation:
art (the products of human creativity; works of art collectively)
artist (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities
Context example:
artistic workmanship
Similar:
aesthetic; aesthetical; esthetic; esthetical (concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste)
Derivation:
art (the products of human creativity; works of art collectively)
artist (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Aesthetically pleasing
Synonyms:
Context example:
an artistic flower arrangement
Similar:
tasteful (having or showing or conforming to good taste)
Context examples
We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was unparalleled, undreamed-of, that I, Humphrey Van Weyden, a scholar and a dilettante, if you please, in things artistic and literary, should be lying here on a Bering Sea seal-hunting schooner.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Artistic Neptune is in your sign, Pisces, and will add a bewitching note to any event you attend mid-month.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The Transcontinental sold for twenty-five cents, and its dignified and artistic cover proclaimed it as among the first-class magazines.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A document or statement granting exclusive right to own, publish, and sell literary, musical, or artistic work, or intellectual property.
(Copyright, NCI Thesaurus)
Don't laugh, but your nose is such a comfort to me, and Amy softly caressed the well-cut feature with artistic satisfaction.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The Classic period was marked by the construction of monumental architecture, intellectual and artistic development, and the growth of large city-states.
(Scientists measure severity of drought during the Maya collapse, University of Cambridge)
Opening this packet, with his old flourish, and glancing at the contents, as if he cherished an artistic admiration of their style of composition, he began to read as follows: ““Dear Miss Trotwood and gentlemen—“”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
On the topic of creativity, lucky Jupiter will be in rare alignment with artistic Neptune on February 20 and will be in sync with Neptune again later in the year on July 27 and October 12.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
They were just as artistic, just as worth while, then as now.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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