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Definition of Elegant
1. Adjective. Refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style. "An elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"
Similar to: Dandified, Dandyish, Foppish, De Luxe, Deluxe, Luxe, Fine, High-class, High-toned, Exquisite, Recherche, Neat, Refined, Tasteful, Ritzy, Soigne, Soignee
Derivative terms: Elegance
Antonyms: Inelegant
2. Adjective. Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth.
3. Adjective. Displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution. "An elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise"
Definition of Elegant
1. 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.
Definition of Elegant
1. Adjective. Characterised by or exhibiting elegance. ¹
2. Adjective. Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elegant
1. tastefully opulent [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elegant
Literary usage of Elegant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"This day are published, and to be had at the booksellers' shops, proposals for
printing by subscription, in an octavo volume, with an elegant type and fine ..."
2. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1905)
"... equally restrained and elegant. Much of the ornament is sunk and chased and
of exquisite quality. The original pieces are by Pierre Platel, and comprise ..."
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