Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

aesthetical

American  
[es-thet-i-kuhl, ees-] / ɛsˈθɛt ɪ kəl, is- /

adjective

  1. of or relating to aesthetics. aesthetics.


Other Word Forms

  • nonaesthetical adjective
  • nonaesthetically adverb
  • superaesthetical adjective
  • superaesthetically adverb

Etymology

Origin of aesthetical

First recorded in 1790–1800; aesthetic, -al 1

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Our ecosystems provide us with food, medicine, clean air and water, recreation, and spiritual and aesthetical inspiration.

From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018

I study their shapes and behaviors and connect them to my conceptual and aesthetical concerns.

From Washington Post

"A lot of people at first thought that industrial design dealt with superficial aesthetical things, with shape," says Professor Herbert Lindinger of the Technical University of Hannover.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even so, it may be said, the human mind is the subject of a complicated Teleology,—the field ruled by a multifarious Ought, psychological, aesthetical, social and religious.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Goethe, than whom no man had ever more studied the elements of the diviner art, was right as an artist in his dislike to the over-cultivation of the aesthetical.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various