artistic
Americanadjective
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conforming to the standards of art; satisfying aesthetic requirements.
artistic productions.
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showing skill or excellence in execution.
artistic workmanship.
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exhibiting taste, discriminating judgment, or sensitivity.
an artistic arrangement of flowers; artistic handling of a delicate diplomatic situation.
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exhibiting an involvement in or appreciation of art, especially the fine arts.
He had wide-ranging artistic interests.
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involving only aesthetic considerations, usually taken as excluding moral, practical, religious, political, or similar concerns.
artistic principles.
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of art or artists.
artistic works.
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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
Etymology
Origin of artistic
Example Sentences
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And those who use artistic talent to craft stories help their nation remember its origin, its purpose and its future.
The band is pitched right at a difficult juncture at which their artistic ambitions abut real, life-altering attention.
From Los Angeles Times
But if Pontormo’s chosen scene is unclear, his unorthodox artistic decisions are not.
The show examines the environmental and human cost of the atomic era through an artistic lens, tracing present day nuclear risk back to its Cold War roots.
From Los Angeles Times
This may have been because he was a foreigner, or a calculating businessman, but Ms. Goldring makes the case that it was Holbein’s irreplaceable artistic prowess that kept him in the king’s good graces.
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