'Elegant' definitions:
Definition of 'elegant'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [ant: inelegant]
adjective
adjective
Displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution; "an elegant dancer"; "an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise"
Definition of 'Elegant'
From: GCIDE
- Elegant \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. [1913 Webster]
- A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
- Syn: Tasteful; polished; graceful; refined; comely; handsome; richly ornamental. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'elegant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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