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aesthetical

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

adjective

  1. of or relating to 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

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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

The scholar who studies the aesthetical anatomy of Greek Art has a melancholy pleasure, like a surgeon, in watching its slow, but inevitable atrophy under the incubus of Rome.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various

The articles of Francis K�lcsey in the same periodical are among the finest specimens of Hungarian aesthetical criticism.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various