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artistic

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Word definitions for artistic in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an artistic director (= person who controls which plays a theatre produces and how they are produced ) ▪ The artistic director announced that a new play would be staged next month. artistic expression (= expressing ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 having or revealing creative skill 2 relating to or characteristic of art or artists 3 aesthetically pleasing

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Artistic \Ar*tis"tic\, Artistical \Ar*tis"tic*al\, a. [Cf. F. artistique, fr. artiste.] Of or pertaining to art or to artists; made in the manner of an artist; conformable to art; characterized by art; showing taste or skill. -- Ar*tis"tic*al*ly , adv.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or characteristic of art or artists; "his artistic background" satisfying aesthetic standards and sensibilities; "artistic workmanship" aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement" [syn: aesthetic , esthetic , pleasing ]

Usage examples of artistic.

It is perfectly justifiable, artistically, to lay the scene of a novel in a workhouse or a gaol, but if the humanitarian impulse leads to any embroidery of or divergence from the truth, the novel is artistically injured, because the selection and grouping of facts should be guided by artistic and not by philanthropic motives.

But if I find them giving themselves airs, or monopolizing my father, or at all ill-treating him, or worrying him with their artistic beastliness, I intend to put my foot down, yes, firmly.

Montgomery Billman, of course, but she aspired to the Serious and the Distinguished, instead of the Rich or the merely Artistic.

November 15th, Joseph Hullmandle, whose inventions and improvements connected with lithography, and tinted lithographic printing, contributed so much to the perfection of that branch of artistic skill.

It was not an artistic impulse only that had brought Mallard to Italy, after three years of work under northern skies.

Why celebrate the artistic perfection of the monophonic novel when Dostoyevsky, an innovative and original genius, was constructing the polyphonic novel with its infinite possibilities?

The Mouser told the tale of counter-thievery well, acting it out in part, and with only the most artistic of embellishments the ferret-marmoset before escaping ran up his body and tried to scratch out his eyes and he was interrupted only twice.

It was, perhaps, the first time in my life that I regretted that my artistic education had over-sharpened and overstrung my nervous system, when I saw how manfully and bravely that man bore what seemed to me almost unbearable.

He does not give any panorama of the city, or any artistic or imaginative description.

This pantograph described the present and future distribution of artistic traditions.

She is one of the four or five important and thoroughly artistic brains in the photoplay game.

She had two brilliant and unattached young men dining with her--one, Michael Quarrington, a lion in the artistic world, and the other, Antoine Davilof, who showed unmistakable symptoms of developing sooner or later into a lion in the musical world.

Seemed to think the experts might destroy his artistic visions if he allowed them to try to realign his metaphysical energy waves.

The producer is not sufficiently aware that any artistic element in his list of productions that is allowed to go wild, that has not had full analysis, reanalysis, and final conservation, wastes his chance to attain supreme mastery.

Stasov condemned Repin for his defection, charging him with the neglect of his artistic duty to the Russian people and his native land.