C2adjectiveformalarts
US/ˌɪn.ɑːrˈtɪs.tɪk/
UK/ˌɪn.ɑːˈtɪs.tɪk/
without artistic skill or taste, or not showing any feeling for beauty
In context
The designer called the tourist poster crude and inartistic, so the council rejected it.
I am hopelessly inartistic; my drawings of people look like potatoes with sticks.
Critics found the film's final scene clumsy and inartistic after such a strong beginning.
Words that go with inartistic
adjective + noun
- inartistic designThe inartistic design of the packaging put customers off.
- inartistic personBeing an inartistic person, he never joined the school art club.
- inartistic workCritics dismissed it as inartistic work with no real vision.
- inartistic styleHer inartistic style made the brochure hard to read.
adverb + adjective
- strikingly inartisticThe building looked strikingly inartistic beside the old theater.