unaesthetic

[ uhn-es-thet-ik or, especially British, -ees- ]
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adjective
  1. offensive to the aesthetic sense; lacking in beauty or sensory appeal; unpleasant, as an object, design, arrangement, etc.: an unaesthetic combination of colors.

Origin of unaesthetic

1
First recorded in 1825–35; un-1 + aesthetic
  • Also un·es·thet·ic, un·aes·thet·i·cal .

Other words from unaesthetic

  • un·aes·thet·i·cal·ly, adverb

Words Nearby unaesthetic

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How to use unaesthetic in a sentence

  • He shrank from them all, as too downright, bluff, and active; too worldly and unaesthetic; or too stiff and narrow.

    Saint's Progress | John Galsworthy
  • Some day it will be recognized that a long composition recording different emotions is really unaesthetic in a uniform pattern.

    The Literature of Ecstasy | Albert Mordell
  • Easy of access, and for the most part fertile, they were an ideal country for that unaesthetic person, the practical settler.

    The Long White Cloud | William Pember Reeves