1. 1審美的、美學的(美式拼法;英式多作 aesthetic)

    Esthetic is the American spelling of aesthetic. It is about beauty: how something looks and feels, not how cheap or useful it is. An esthetic choice is a choice you make because it is pleasing to the eye. As a noun, “the esthetic” can mean a look or a style: a simple esthetic, a dark esthetic.

    Though actually, this is not a spelling of . An (American: ) is a person who cares a great deal about art and beauty. Esthetic is the beauty-word itself. British English keeps an extra a and aesthetic. Same meaning, different letters.

    People stretch it. On the internet, a whole way of dressing or can be “an aesthetic.” Older, more careful English kept it closer to art and the idea of beauty. In American beauty shops you may also meet esthetician — a person who works on skin and looks. That job name uses this American spelling. As an adjective it is a little formal; in daily talk, people often just say it looks nice.

組成American spelling of aesthetic. The word comes from Greek, from an old root about sensing and feeling — that is why it is about beauty and the senses. British spelling keeps ae- at the start; American spelling often drops that extra a.

同家族的字

  • aestheticthe usual British spelling of the same word
  • estheticsthe related noun for the study of beauty (and, in American English, sometimes salon work)
  • aesthetea person who lives for beauty; same Greek root, but a different word

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。