artistic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities

   artistic workmanship

2. 2
   adj

   aesthetically pleasing

   an artistic flower arrangement

3. 3
   adj

   relating to or characteristic of art or artists

   Their artistic background was respected by that community.

4. 4
   adj

   Having or revealing creative skill.

   He [Abraham Lincoln] leaves for America’s history and biography, so far, not only its most dramatic reminiscence—he leaves, in my opinion, the greatest, best, most characteristic, artistic, moral personality.

5. 5
   adj

   Relating to or characteristic of art or artists.

   Art should be independent of all clap-trap—should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like.

6. 6
   adj

   Aesthetically pleasing.

   To be artistic, that is, to excite the feeling of beauty effectually, the notes must not be all forte or all piano ; and the execution is the finer the more numerous the gradations—supposing these are such as to satisfy other requirements.

7. 7
   adj

   Euphemistic form of autistic.

   To track gf workouts is artistic as fuck.

8. 8
   adv

   Artistically, in an artistic style.

   'You've got to do it artistic. Here, like this.'

Etymology

Borrowed from French artistique, from artiste + -ique. By surface analysis, artist + -ic.