The architect's design balanced functional efficiency with aesthetic appeal, creating a building that was both practical and pleasing.
建筑师的设计在功能效率与美学吸引力之间取得了平衡，创造了一座既实用又令人愉悦的建筑。
A biography of a violin maker spends its first half describing the physical craft of shaping and varnishing wood, then pivots in its second half to explore how the maker's Sicilian upbringing shaped an aesthetic sensibility visible in every instrument.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “aesthetic”?
C — Artistic; beautiful; tasteful. “aesthetic” means artistic; beautiful; tasteful.
Which word means “artistic; beautiful; tasteful”?
C — aesthetic. “aesthetic” means artistic; beautiful; tasteful.
aesthetic — artistic; beautiful; tasteful. In Chinese: 美学的，审美的.
aesthetic is pronounced /iːsˈθɛtɪk/.
The architect's design balanced functional efficiency with aesthetic appeal, creating a building that was both practical and pleasing. (建筑师的设计在功能效率与美学吸引力之间取得了平衡，创造了一座既实用又令人愉悦的建筑。)
artistic, beautiful, tasteful — all close in meaning to aesthetic (artistic; beautiful; tasteful).
ugly, unaesthetic — each the opposite of aesthetic (artistic; beautiful; tasteful).
Yes. aesthetic is on the SAT Prep Easy list — mid-frequency academic words that do get tested. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
aesthet-(sensation) + ic→ aesthetic.