aesthetical

[ es-thet-i-kuhl or, especially British, ees- ]

/ ɛsˈθɛt ɪ kəl or, especially British, is- /

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of or relating to aesthetics.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

First recorded in 1790–1800; see origin at aesthetic, -al¹

non·aes·thet·i·cal, adjectivenon·aes·thet·i·cal·ly, adverbsu·per·aes·thet·i·cal, adjectivesu·per·aes·thet·i·cal·ly, adverb

As the gallery puts it, Mercier's works "imply that function is part of an aesthetical proposition."
This Bench Recycles Bad Carpet as Good Art|Blake Gopnik|June 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Munich, on the Isar, is every day drifting into the beautiful, not to say aesthetical.
Some Cities and San Francisco and Resurgam|Hubert Howe Bancroft
This later view was to a great extent expressed by Schiller in his "Aesthetical Letters."
The Aesthetical Essays|Friedrich Schiller
The following year, 1795, appeared his most important contribution to aesthetics, in his Aesthetical Letters.
The Aesthetical Essays|Friedrich Schiller

The aesthetical appearance can never endanger the truth of morals: wherever it seems to do so the appearance is not aesthetical.
The Aesthetical Essays|Friedrich Schiller
The act of Leonidas satisfies the moral sense, the reason; it enraptures the aesthetical sense, the imagination.
The Aesthetical Essays|Friedrich Schiller