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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.
- Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.

Meaning of 'elegant' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . elegant [ a]
Meaning (1):
- 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]
Meaning (2):
- displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution
Example in sentence:
  • an elegant dancer;
  • an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise

Nearby Words:

eleatic eleaticism elecampane elect electant electary elected electer electic electicism

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