artistic

Also ar·tis·ti·cal

[ahr-tis-tik]

adjective

1. conforming to the standards of art; satisfying aesthetic requirements.

   artistic productions.

2. showing skill or excellence in execution.

   artistic workmanship.

3. exhibiting taste, discriminating judgment, or sensitivity.

   an artistic arrangement of flowers; artistic handling of a delicate diplomatic situation.

4. exhibiting an involvement in or appreciation of art, especially the fine arts.

   He had wide-ranging artistic interests.

5. involving only aesthetic considerations, usually taken as excluding moral, practical, religious, political, or similar concerns.

   artistic principles.

6. of art or artists.

   artistic works.

7. of, like, or thought of as characteristic of an artist.

   an artistic temperament.

Other Word Forms

• artistically adverb
• interartistic adjective
• nonartistic adjective
• nonartistical adjective
• nonartistically adverb
• preartistic adjective
• pseudoartistic adjective
• pseudoartistically adverb
• quasi-artistic adjective
• quasi-artistically adverb
• unartistic adjective
• unartistically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of artistic¹

First recorded in 1745–55; artist + -ic

Example Sentences

They claimed the project was an "artistic provocation", not a trick, but many fans felt betrayed.

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“Downtown/Uptown” at Lévy Gorvy Dayan offers a different, artistic perspective of that time and place.

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Their artistic growth was aided, time and time again, by cutting-edge advances in recording technology.

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Prints, relatively inexpensive to produce and easy to distribute, were championed by some 18th-century intellectuals as the quintessential artistic medium of the Enlightenment.

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“What we advocate for in ‘31 Minutos’ is artistic excellence from Chile,” Díaz adds.

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Related Words

• aesthetic 
• creative 
• decorative 
• dramatic 
• imaginative 
• musical