artistic

See also: artístic

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑɹˈtɪstɪk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɑːˈtɪstɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪstɪk
• Hyphenation: ar‧tist‧ic

Adjective

artistic (comparative more artistic, superlative most artistic)

1. Having or revealing creative skill.
   • 1865 April 16, Walt Whitman, “Death of President Lincoln”, in Specimen Days, Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co., published 1882–83, page 68:

     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.

2. Relating to or characteristic of art or artists.
   • 1890, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, “The Picture Defended”, in Sheridan Ford, editor, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, New York: Frederick Stokes & Brother, pages 69–70:

     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.

3. Aesthetically pleasing.
   • 1855, Herbert Spencer, “Æsthetic Sentiments”, in The Principles of Psychology, volume II, New York: D. Appleton and Company, published 1877, page 640:

     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.

5. (Internet slang) Euphemistic form of autistic.

   Synonym: acoustic

   Coordinate term: regarded

   • 2021 January 5, u/sorgan71, “Anon is nervous”, in Reddit‎^[1], r/4chan, archived from the original on 9 January 2024:

     To track gf workouts is artistic as fuck.

   • 2023 July 9, u/ThePootisSaver, “Femanon(?) Hates Men”, in Reddit‎^[2], r/greentext, archived from the original on 9 January 2024:

     Second anon is artistic and severely regarded.

   • 2023 November 10, @GUlTARDUO, Twitter‎^[3], archived from the original on 9 January 2024:

     went on a call with my friend then zoned out and then i heard her say 'are you restarted or are you artistic or are you gray?'

   • 2023 December 21, u/fatnugget0, “PICTURE! PICTURE! SMILE FOR THE PICTURE! POSE WITH YOUR BROTHER WONT YOU BE A GOOD SISTER! EVERYONE THINKS THAT WE'RE PERFECT! PLEASE DON'T LET THEM LOOK THROUGH THE CURTAINS~”, in Reddit‎^[4], r/teenagers, archived from the original on 9 January 2024:

     Bro is artistic and he is the homie with a^[sic] extra chromoie

   • 2024 January 2, u/Power_of_Atturdy, “Why did he run up the middle where the entire team would be? Is he acoustic?”, in Reddit‎^[5], r/nflcirclejerk, archived from the original on 9 January 2024:

     Why would you show a play from college football in the nflcirclejerk subreddit? Are you artistic?

Synonyms

• artist (archaic)

Derived terms

• antiartistic
• artistic gymnastics
• artistic licence
• artistic license
• artisticness
• artistic swimming
• artistic temperament
• artlang
• heartistic
• interartistic
• musicoartistic
• nonartistic
• preartistic
• unartistic

Translations

having creative skill

• Albanian: artistik (sq)
• Catalan: artístic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藝術的 / 艺术的 (zh) (yìshù de)

• Danish: kunstnerisk
• Dutch: kunstzinnig (nl), artistiek (nl)
• Finnish: taiteellinen (fi), luova (fi)
• French: artistique (fr)
• Galician: artístico (gl)
• German: künstlerisch (de), gestalterisch (de)
• Greek: φιλότεχνος (el) (filótechnos)
• Hungarian: művészi (hu)
• Indonesian: seniah
• Italian: artistico (it)
• Japanese: 芸術的な (ja) (げいじゅつてきな, geijutsuteki na)
• Latvian: māksliniecisks
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kunstnerisk (no)

  Nynorsk: kunstnarisk, kunstnarleg

• Portuguese: artístico (pt)
• Romanian: artistic (ro)
• Russian: артисти́ческий (ru) (artistíčeskij), иску́сный (ru) (iskúsnyj), артисти́чный (ru) (artistíčnyj)
• Spanish: artístico (es)
• Swedish: konstnärlig (sv)
• Turkish: sanatsal (tr), dörütsel
• Ukrainian: артисти́чний (uk) (artystýčnyj)
• Yiddish: קינסטלעריש (kinstlerish), אַרטיסטיש (artistish)

relating to art or artists

• Albanian: artistik (sq)
• Azerbaijani: bədii (az)
• Catalan: artístic (ca)
• Czech: umělecký (cs)
• Danish: kunstnerisk
• Dutch: kunstzinnig (nl), artistiek (nl)
• Esperanto: artista (eo), arta (relating to art)
• Finnish: taiteellinen (fi), artistinen
• French: artistique (fr)
• Galician: artístico (gl)
• German: künstlerisch (de)
• Greek: καλλιτεχνικός (el) (kallitechnikós)
• Hebrew: אָמָּנוּתִי (omanutí)
• Hungarian: művészi (hu)
• Indonesian: seniah
• Italian: artistico (it)
• Japanese: 芸術的な (ja) (geijutsuteki na)
• Latin: mūsīvus
• Latvian: māksliniecisks
• Luxembourgish: artistesch
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kunstnerisk (no)

  Nynorsk: kunstnarisk, kunstnarleg

• Polish: artystyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: artístico (pt)
• Romanian: artistic (ro)
• Russian: худо́жественный (ru) (xudóžestvennyj)
• Spanish: artístico (es)
• Turkish: sanatsal (tr), dörütsel
• Ukrainian: худо́жній (xudóžnij), мисте́цький (uk) (mystécʹkyj)
• Yiddish: קינסטלעריש (kinstlerish), אַרטיסטיש (artistish)

aesthetically pleasing

• Albanian: artistik (sq)
• Azerbaijani: nəfis (az)
• Catalan: artístic (ca)
• Danish: kunstnerisk
• Dutch: kunstzinnig (nl), artistiek (nl)
• Esperanto: artisma
• Finnish: taiteellinen (fi), esteettinen (fi)
• French: artistique (fr)
• German: kunstvoll (de)
• Greek: περίτεχνος (el) (perítechnos), καλαίσθητος (el) (kalaísthitos)
• Hungarian: művészi (hu)
• Indonesian: seniah
• Italian: artistico (it)
• Japanese: 芸術的な (ja) (geijutsuteki na)
• Polish: kunsztowny (pl)
• Portuguese: artístico (pt)
• Romanian: artistic (ro)
• Spanish: artístico (es)
• Turkish: sanatsal (tr), dörütsel
• Yiddish: קינסטלעריש (kinstlerish)

Adverb

artistic (comparative more artistic, superlative most artistic)

1. (nonstandard) Artistically, in an artistic style.

   Antonym: inartistic

   • 1963, Geoffrey Tolhurst, Flat 4 Kings Cross, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, published 1966, page 100:

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

Further reading

• “artistic”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.

Anagrams

• triatics

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arˈtis.tik/

Adjective

artistic m or n (feminine singular artistică, masculine plural artistici, feminine and neuter plural artistice)

1. artistic

Declension

Declension of artistic

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	artistic		artistică		artistici	artistice
	definite	artisticul		artistica		artisticii	artisticele
genitive- dative	indefinite	artistic		artistice		artistici	artistice
	definite	artisticului		artisticei		artisticilor	artisticelor

Related terms

• artă
• artist