artistic B1 Topic:Describing Qualities US /ɑɹˈtɪs.tɪk/ UK /ɑːˈtɪs.tɪk/ See IPA manual Freq #7269 Meanings 1 adj Relating to art or artists. The city has a rich artistic tradition. 2 adj Having or showing skill and imagination in creating things. She comes from a very artistic family. 3 adj Beautiful and pleasing to look at. The cake was decorated in an artistic way. Thesaurus Synonyms 2 adj · having or showing skill and... creative 3 adj · beautiful and pleasing to... aesthetic More artist Word family Derived forms antiartisticartisticnessartlangheartisticinterartisticmusicoartisticnonartisticpreartisticunartistic Common collocations artistic creation Adjective + noun artistic invention Adjective + noun Etymology AI details Borrowed from French artistique, from artiste + -ique. By surface analysis, artist + -ic. *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European artistique French View etymology graph -> Topics Describing Qualities External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # artistic **Type:** Word **Level:** B1 **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (US):** /ɑɹˈtɪs.tɪk/ **IPA (UK):** /ɑːˈtɪs.tɪk/ **Frequency rank:** 7269 ## Meanings 1. Relating to art or artists. 2. Having or showing skill and imagination in creating things. 3. Beautiful and pleasing to look at. ## Examples - The city has a rich artistic tradition. - She comes from a very artistic family. - The cake was decorated in an artistic way. ## Synonyms - artist ## Derived Forms - antiartistic - artisticness - artlang - heartistic - interartistic - musicoartistic - nonartistic - preartistic - unartistic ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *h₂er- - Root: artistique ## Etymology Borrowed from French artistique, from artiste + -ique. By surface analysis, artist + -ic. ## AI Etymology Artistic is borrowed from French artistique, from artiste plus -ique. By surface analysis, artist plus -ic. The historical chain also includes Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-. The formation is semantically transparent: the parts remain visible, while the compound or affix fixes the grammatical role and narrows the modern meaning. In use as an adjective, artistic denotes relating to art or artists, having or showing skill and imagination in creating things, and beautiful and pleasing to look at. The same word family continues in derived forms such as antiartistic, artisticness, artlang, and heartistic. ## Topics - Describing Qualities markdown