All 4 Uses of
aesthetic
in
Into Thin Air
- By then it had become fashionable among alpine cognoscenti to denigrate Everest as a slag heap--a peak lacking sufficient technical challenges or aesthetic appeal to be a worthy objective for a "serious" climber, which I desperately aspired to be.
Chpt 3aesthetic = related to beautyunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- The government of Nepal recognized that the throngs flocking to Everest created serious problems in terms of safety, aesthetics, and impact to the environment.†
Chpt 3
- …except for the briefest moments, during which one is not usually in a mood for aesthetic enjoyment, there is nothing to look at but the bleak confusion inside the tent and the scaly, bearded countenance of one's companion-
Chpt 8aesthetic = related to beautyunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- Like most veteran Everest guides, Groom believed that although it was acceptable--and, indeed, aesthetically preferable--to do without bottled oxygen when climbing on one's own, it would be extremely irresponsible to guide the peak without using it.
Chpt 11 *aesthetically = in consideration of beautyunconventional spelling: Aesthetically is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetically.
Definition:
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(aesthetic) related to beauty or good taste -- often referring to one's appreciation of beauty or one's sense of what is beautiful
or:
beautiful or tasteful