aesthetic

adjetivo

1. 1

   Concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance.

   It works well enough, but the shabby exterior offends his aesthetic sensibilities.

   If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.

   If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.

   But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.

2. 2

   raroBeautiful or appealing to one's sense of beauty or art.

   The design of the lobby cannot be considered particularly aesthetic.

   The station was rebuilt yet again by British Rail in 1967, when large chunks of the 19th century station were demolished and replaced with 'modern' buildings that were less than aesthetic.

substantivo

1. 1

   The study of art or beauty.

2. 2

   That which appeals to the senses.

3. 3

   The set of artistic motifs defining a collection of things, especially works of art; more broadly, their aura or “vibe”.

   Her most recent works have this quirky, nonchalant aesthetic inspired by ’90s teen culture.

   I really like the goth aesthetic you've got going there.

   A thin, crunchy lemon and thyme rosti was essentially the pimped-up aesthetic of the Kettle chip. That's OK. I like Kettle chips.

Formas

plural

aesthetics

comparativo

more aesthetic

superlativo

most aesthetic