inæsthetic

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭnĭsthĕʹtĭk, IPA(key): /ɪnɪsˈθɛtɪk/ === Adjective === inæsthetic (not comparable) Archaic spelling of inaesthetic. 1878, May Laffan, The Hon. Miss Ferrard, page 262 (George Munro): “It’s a bad habit I have acquired abroad. Our salon in Vienna was always full of diplomats of all sorts; and moreover, what has one in Ireland but politics? We don’t read; we don’t paint; we are all utterly ignorant and inæsthetic. We are exactly fifty years behind England in culture.” === References === “inæsthetic, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989] (ɪnɪsˈθɛtɪk) [in-³.] — Defined in the first sense (“Not æsthetic…”) only. === Anagrams === esthetician