| 单词 | aesthetic |
| 释义 | aesthetic (once / 1071 pages) adjn The adjective aesthetic comes in handy when the subject at hand is beauty or the arts. A velvet painting of dogs playing poker might have minimal aesthetic appeal. Aesthetic, from a Greek word meaning "perception," comes to us from German philosophers who used it for a theory of the beautiful. From this technical sense, it soon came to refer to good taste and to artistry in general; if something has "aesthetic value," it has value as a work of art (even if nobody will pay much for it). It does not, however, refer to the objects themselves; do not talk about an "aesthetic painting." WORD FAMILYaesthetic: aesthetically, aesthetician, aesthetics, inaesthetic, unaesthetic+/aesthetician: aestheticians/aesthetics: aesthetical USAGE EXAMPLESHis best-known work was "Ways of Seeing", a criticism of western cultural aesthetics, but he also won the Booker Prize for his novel G. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Pope’s sarcastic rules to achieving bathos in poetry were a clear attack on the aesthetic and moral climate of his time. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) This game is unlikely to be aesthetic, but will be all the more compelling for that. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste the aesthetic faculties an aesthetic person aesthetic feeling the illustrations made the book an aesthetic success Syn|Ant aesthetical, esthetic, esthetical artistic satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities cosmetic, enhanciveserving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body painterlyhaving qualities unique to the art of painting sensuoustaking delight in beauty inaesthetic, unaesthetic violating aesthetic canons or requirements; deficient in tastefulness or beauty inartistic, unartisticlacking aesthetic sensibility; 2adj aesthetically pleasing Syn artistic, esthetic tasteful having or showing or conforming to good taste 3adj relating to or dealing with the subject of aesthetics aesthetic values Syn esthetic 4n (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful Syn|Hyper esthetic philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy |
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