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Definition of elegant:
- Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
- 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:
soignee, high-toned, chaste, mellifluous, economical, grandiloquent, ornate, ingestion, rare, flowery, majestic, exquisite, balanced, utopian, high-class, formal, processed, style, opulent, bijou, stately, abstract, ritzy, gracious, nonconformist, fastidious, dainty, dandified, rhetorical, rhythmical, florid, engaging, chic, classy, fine, theoretical, dandyish, dashing, popular, metaphysical, select, pure, good, ill-chosen, conceptual, De Luxe, luxury, deluxe, succinct, fancy, concise, personable, tasteful, dull, perfected, adorned, foppish, dignified, aristocratic, recherche, lovable, flowing, telegenic, beauteous, sumptuous, central, rich, luxurious, genteel, soigne, debonair, smart, inarticulate, restrained, incisive, bewitching, tony, refined, posh, orthodox, courtly, fluent, neat, luxe, urbane, svelte, delightful, deterministic.
- artistic (part of speech: adjective)
- elegant (part of speech: adjective)
- tasteful (part of speech: adjective)
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beautiful (part of speech: adjective)
- fair,
- becoming,
- enchanting,
- finished,
- exquisite,
- shapely,
- ravishing,
- beautiful,
- stunning,
- resplendent,
- eye-filling,
- sublime,
- sightly,
- quaint,
- gorgeous,
- belle,
- picturesque,
- splendid,
- superb,
- angelic,
- breathtaking,
- graceful,
- flowerlike,
- pretty,
- pleasing,
- glamorous,
- good-looking,
- bonny,
- lovely,
- comely,
- charming,
- handsome,
- refined,
- radiant,
- ornamental,
- attractive,
- glorious,
- polished,
- dazzling
Usage examples:
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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.