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Elegant Definition And Meaning
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.

Elegant Definition And Meaning

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

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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