All 3 Uses of
aesthetic
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- "Ech, I am an aesthetic louse and nothing more," he added suddenly, laughing like a madman.
Chpt 3.6aesthetic = beautiful, tasteful, or related to beauty or tasteunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- You preach to me about vice and aesthetics!†
Chpt 6.3aesthetics = related to beauty or good taste; or the study of what is beautiful or tastefulunconventional spelling: Aesthetics is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetics.
- Ah, it's not picturesque, not aesthetically attractive!
Chpt 6.7 *aesthetically = in a manner that is beautiful or tastefulunconventional spelling: Aesthetically is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetically.
Definition:
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
or:
beautiful or tasteful