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Definition of elegant : 1. Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
2. 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.

Synonyms:

abstract, metaphysical, beauteous, De Luxe, bijou, dandyish, florid, deluxe, svelte, pure, stately, smart, urbane, ritzy, processed, nonconformist, rare, orthodox, concise, genteel, theoretical, incisive, recherche, classy, engaging, foppish, balanced, telegenic, style, courtly, ill-chosen, fluent, ingestion, mellifluous, economical, lovable, luxury, perfected, high-class, personable, posh, rhythmical, dull, good, sumptuous, dandified, inarticulate, chic, majestic, adorned, luxurious, deterministic, popular, soigne, restrained, central, tony, grandiloquent, opulent, succinct, bewitching, conceptual, gracious, flowery, rhetorical, dashing, dainty, debonair, aristocratic, delightful, chaste, flowing, luxe, fancy, soignee, formal, ornate, fastidious, utopian, high-toned, rich, select

beautiful, aesthetic, graceful, expert, poetic, masterful, talented, proficient, artistic, creative, skillful, tasteful, accomplished, gifted, sublime

dignified, tactful, civil, fine, neat, cultured, well-bred, decorous, suave, sophisticated, stylish, classical

classic, cultivated, choice, charming, delicate, refined, discriminating

ornamental, polished, angelic, pretty, handsome, splendid, finished, eye-filling, belle, glamorous, picturesque, flowerlike, good-looking, gorgeous, shapely, ravishing, glorious, dazzling, superb, stunning, fair, attractive, sightly, becoming, breathtaking, bonny, resplendent, lovely, radiant, exquisite, enchanting, pleasing, comely, quaint

Usage examples:

• Some of the carriages were very elegant. - "Rollo in Holland", Jacob Abbott.
• Major Harper's black boy brought me the Yankee's horse with my bridle and saddle on him; an elegant animal as fresh as a dawn breeze. - "The Cavalier", George Washington Cable.
• I cannot, therefore, sympathise in the elegant tributes to his memory which have been paid by all parties. - "The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2)", Florence A. Thomas Marshall.