elegant

Speech parts

1. elegant - Adjective

2. elegant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

graceful refined polished handsome tasteful classy grand dapper chic comely beautiful sophisticated attractive magnificent splendid
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Antonyms

inelegant clumsy old-fashioned brut spartan epos
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Phrases with the word

elegant piano elegant restaurant elegant handwriting elegant penmanship elegant gayfeather elegant venus clam

Anagrams

angelet

Examples

Beware of exquisite language. The language should be simple and elegant. Anton Chekhov

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle. Edward Witten

What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms. Salvador Dalí

To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big. Aristotle Onassis

Although there exist many thousands of subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. Chinese Proverb

Nothing is more elegant than ready money! French Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Elefsina elegance elegancy elegant brodiaea elegant building elegant cat's ears