artistic

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

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

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

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.

4. (Internet slang) Euphemistic form of autistic.

   Synonym: acoustic

   • 2021 January 5, u/sorgan71, “Anon is nervous”, in Reddit‎, 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, r/greentext, archived from the original on 9 January 2024:

     Second anon is artistic and severely regarded.

   • 2023 November 10, @GUlTARDUO, Twitter‎, 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, 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, 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?

• artist (archaic)

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.'

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

• triatics

Borrowed from French artistique.

• IPA^(key): /arˈtis.tik/

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

1. artistic