# artistic
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ɑɹˈtɪstɪk/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɑːˈtɪstɪk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
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* Rhymes: -ɪstɪk
* Hyphenation: ar‧tist‧ic

### Adjective

artistic (comparative more artistic, superlative most artistic)
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* (Internet slang) Euphemistic form of autistic.
    Synonym: acoustic
    Coordinate term: regarded
** 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 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?

#### 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
### Adverb

artistic (comparative more artistic, superlative most artistic)
* (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: /arˈtis.tik/

### Adjective

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

#### Related terms

* artă
* artist