[ahr-tis-tik] 
| 1. | conforming to the standards of art; satisfying aesthetic requirements: artistic productions. |
| 2. | showing skill or excellence in execution: artistic workmanship. |
| 3. | exhibiting taste, discriminating judgment, or sensitivity: an artistic arrangement of flowers; artistic handling of a delicate diplomatic situation. |
| 4. | exhibiting an involvement in or appreciation of art, esp. the fine arts: He had wide-ranging artistic interests. |
| 5. | involving only aesthetic considerations, usually taken as excluding moral, practical, religious, political, or similar concerns: artistic principles. |
| 6. | of art or artists: artistic works. |
| 7. | of, like, or thought of as characteristic of an artist: an artistic temperament. |
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