AEsthetic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  AEsthetic \[AE]s*thet"ic\, AEsthetical \[AE]s*thet"ic*al\, a.
     Of or Pertaining to [ae]sthetics; versed in [ae]sthetics; as,
     [ae]sthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc.
     [1913 Webster] -- {[AE]s*thet"ic*al*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  aesthetic
       adj 1: relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics;
              "aesthetic values" [syn: {esthetic}]
       2: concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or
          good taste; "the aesthetic faculties"; "an aesthetic
          person"; "aesthetic feeling"; "the illustrations made the
          book an aesthetic success" [syn: {esthetic}, {aesthetical},
           {esthetical}] [ant: {inaesthetic}]
       3: aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement"
          [syn: {esthetic}, {artistic}, {pleasing}]
       n : (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful;
           "he despised the esthetic of minimalism" [syn: {esthetic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "aesthetic":
     Attic, aesthetically appealing, art-conscious, artistic, arty,
     attractive, beauteous, beautiful, chaste, choice, classic,
     cultivated, discriminating, elegant, endowed with beauty,
     excellent, exquisite, eye-filling, fine, flowerlike, graceful,
     gracile, handsome, heavy, in good taste, lovely, of choice,
     of consummate art, of quality, ornamental, painterly, pleasing,
     pretty, pulchritudinous, pure, quiet, refined, restrained,
     sensitive, simple, subdued, tasteful, unaffected, understated,
     unobtrusive, well-chosen