unartistic

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˌʌnɑːˈtɪstɪk/
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/ˌʌnɑːˈtɪstɪk/ · /ˌʌnɑɹˈtɪstɪk/

Definition of unartistic

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Not artistic.
    “If you have never had it, and you are devoid of an interest in what is truly beautiful, then you will belong to the unartistic group of people.”
    “If such works—altered by ritual use, incorporating the most “unartistic” materials from the traditional Western viewpoint, and as far from illusionistic in style as Picasso could ever have seen—can appear “reasonable” to a Western artist, that artist has performed an almost magical act of projection and inversion of the ordinary meaning of the work as “rational.””
    “They've gotten their foot up that high, and they want to show it off. Well, that's an unartistic idea about dancing. It's a plebeian, low-class idea.”

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis Proto-Italic *artis Latin ars Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European…

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis Proto-Italic *artis Latin ars Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)der. Latin -ista Late Latin artistader. French artiste Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -ique Middle French -ique French -ique French artistiquebor. English artistic English unartistic From un- + artistic.

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