aesthetic
es-THET-ikadjMeaning having to do with beauty or the enjoyment of beauty
Memory hook IS-THAT-ICK? or is that lovely?. At the art show, Professor Edwin peers at each painting and asks, “Is that ick, or is that lovely?” He is judging its aesthetic value.
The bridge is useful, but its aesthetic appeal is what draws the photographers.
In context The engineers cared only whether the tower would stand; the architect worried about its aesthetic qualities, arguing for curves and colored glass that would make it beautiful.
Similar artistic, visual, decorative, tasteful
Opposite unattractive, unsightly
From Greek aisthetikos, “having to do with the senses, with perception.”