Aesthetic: meaning, pronunciation and examples
Aesthetic adjective. Concerned with beauty, or with how pleasing something looks.
How to say it
eess-THET-ik/iːsˈθɛtɪk/ · American /ɛsˈθɛdɪk/
3 syllables, stressed on the second (THET).
Meanings
- Concerned with beauty, or with how pleasing something looks.
- As a noun, a particular look or artistic style, as of a person, brand or era.
Aesthetic in a sentence
The café's pale wood and dried flowers are a careful aesthetic choice, not an accident.
Her films share a grainy, sun-bleached aesthetic you can spot from a single frame.
Similar and opposite
Similar:
- artistic
- visual
- stylistic
Where aesthetic comes from
From Greek aisthētikos, to do with perception by the senses.
Test yourself
Which word fills the gap?
Her films share a grainy, sun-bleached _____ you can spot from a single frame.
- lyrical
- aesthetic
- aleatory
Show the answer
aesthetic: Her films share a grainy, sun-bleached aesthetic you can spot from a single frame.