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Meaning of 'elegant'
Meaning of 'elegant' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Elegant 
[ a.]
- 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.]- Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
Meaning of 'elegant' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. elegant [ a]
[ a]Meaning (1):
- refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style
- refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style
Example in sentence:
- an elegant dark suit;
- an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid;
- elegant handwriting;
- she was elegant to her fingertips;
- small churches with elegant white spires
2. elegant [ s]
[ s]Meaning (2):
- displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution
- displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution
Example in sentence:
- an elegant dancer;
- an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise
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