aesthetical

[ es-thet-i-kuhlor, especially British, ees- ]

adjective

1. of or relating to aesthetics. aesthetics.

Other Words From

• nonaes·theti·cal adjective
• nonaes·theti·cal·ly adverb
• super·aes·theti·cal adjective
• super·aes·theti·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of aesthetical¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post

As the gallery puts it, Mercier's works "imply that function is part of an aesthetical proposition."

From The Daily Beast

Munich, on the Isar, is every day drifting into the beautiful, not to say aesthetical.

From Project Gutenberg

This later view was to a great extent expressed by Schiller in his "Aesthetical Letters."

From Project Gutenberg

The following year, 1795, appeared his most important contribution to aesthetics, in his Aesthetical Letters.

From Project Gutenberg

The aesthetical appearance can never endanger the truth of morals: wherever it seems to do so the appearance is not aesthetical.

From Project Gutenberg

The act of Leonidas satisfies the moral sense, the reason; it enraptures the aesthetical sense, the imagination.

From Project Gutenberg