About The Word Elegant
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Elegant
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What's The Definition Of Elegant?
[adj] refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"
[adj] refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid" [adj] of seemingly effortless beauty in form or proportion [adj] suggesting taste, ease, and wealth Synonyms | Synonyms for Elegant: bijou | courtly | dandified | dandyish | de luxe | deluxe | dignified | exquisite | fine | foppish | formal | gracious | high-class | high-toned | luxe | luxury(a) | neat | recherche | refined | ritzy | soigne | soignee | stately | tasteful Related Terms | Find terms related to Elegant: advantageous | aesthetic | aesthetically appealing | apt | arabesque | artistic | Attic | attractive | august | auspicious | awe-inspiring | awful | Babylonian | barbaric | baroque | beauteous | beautiful | becoming | beneficial | benevolent | bon | bonny | braw | bueno | busy | capital | chaste | chic | chichi | choice | Ciceronian | civilized | classic | classy | clear | clever | clothes-conscious | cogent | comely | commendable | Corinthian | cosmopolitan | courtly | cultivated | cultured | dainty | dapper | dashing | debonair | decent | decorous | delicate | deluxe | dignified | direct | discerning | discriminating | dressed to advantage | dressed to kill | easy | elaborate | endowed with beauty | estimable | euphemistic | euphuistic | excellent | expedient | exquisite | extravagant | eye-filling | facile | fair | famous | fancy | fashionable | fastidious | favorable | fine | finished | flamboyant | florid | flowerlike | flowery | flowing | fluent | formalistic | frilly | fussy | genteel | glorious | good | goodly | goody good-good | goody-goody | graceful | gracile | gracious | grand | grandiose | handsome | healthy | heavy | helpful | high-wrought | imposing | impressive | in | ingenious | jaunty | kind | labored | laudable | limpid | lovely | lucid | luxuriant | luxurious | magnificent | majestic | mincing | modest | modish | moresque | namby-pamby | natty | natural | neat | nice | nifty | nobby | noble | opulent | ornate | ostentatious | overelaborate | overelegant | overlabored | overnice | overprecise | overrefined | overworked | overwrought | palatial | pedantic | pellucid | perspicuous | picturesque | plain | pleasant | pleasing | plush | polished | posh | precieuse | precious | precisian | precisianistic | precisionistic | pretty | pretty-pretty | princely | profitable | proper | proud | pulchritudinous | pure | puristic | rare | recherche | refined | regal | restrained | rich | ritzy | rococo | round | royal | seemly | select | sharp | simpering | simple | skillful | sleek | smart | smooth | smug | snazzy | soigne | soignee | sophisticated | sound | spiffy | splendacious | splendid | splendiferous | spruce | stately | straightforward | style-conscious | stylish | suave | subtle | sumptuous | superb | superfancy | superfine | superior | swank | swanky | swell | tasteful | terse | tricksy | trig | trim | tripping | unaffected | unlabored | urbane | useful | valid | very good | virtuous | well-bred | well-dressed | well-groomed | with it See Also | graceful | in good taste(p) | sophisticated Elegant In Webster's Dictionary \El"e*gant\, a. [L. elegans, -antis; akin to eligere to
pick out, choose, select: cf. F. ['e]l['e]gant. See {Elect}.]
1. Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste;
characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the
absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and
approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from
blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly
attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of
composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.
A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature.
--Prescott.
2. Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or
sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
Syn: Tasteful; polished; graceful; refined; comely; handsome;
richly ornamental.
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