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Definitions for Elegant
[1] tastefully fine or luxurious in dress, style, design, etc.: elegant furnishings.
[2] gracefully refined and dignified, as in tastes, habits, or literary style: an elegant young gentleman; an elegant prosodist.
[3] graceful in form or movement: an elegant wave of the hand.
[4] appropriate to refined taste: a man devoted to elegant pursuits.
[5] excellent; fine; superior: an absolutely elegant wine.
[6] (of scientific, technical, or mathematical theories, solutions, etc.) gracefully concise and simple; admirably succinct.
[7] tasteful in dress, style, or design
[8] dignified and graceful in appearance, behaviour, etc
[9] cleverly simple; ingenious an elegant solution to a problem
Words related to Elegant
chic, polished, stately, grand, simple, delicate, ornate, fashionable, opulent, luxurious, sumptuous, neat, fancy, classic, stylish, graceful, refined, dignified, exquisite, handsome
Words nearby Elegant
electuary, eledoisin, eleemosynary, elegance, elegancy, elegant, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, elegiac stanza, elegist
Origin of Elegant
1400–50; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Latin ēlegant- (stem of ēlegāns ) tasteful, choice, equivalent to ēleg- (akin to ēlig- select; see elect) + -ant- -ant; orig. present participle of lost v.
Words that may be confused with Elegant
Other words from Elegant
el·e·gant·ly , adverb
hy·per·el·e·gant , adjective
hy·per·el·e·gant·ly , adverb
o·ver·el·e·gant , adjective
o·ver·el·e·gant·ly , adverb
su·per·el·e·gant , adjective
su·per·el·e·gant·ly , adverb
un·el·e·gant , adjective
un·el·e·gant·ly , adverb
Word origin for Elegant
C16: from Latin ēlegāns tasteful, related to ēligere to select; see elect
Synonyms for Elegant
chic, classic, delicate, dignified, exquisite, fancy, fashionable, graceful, grand, handsome, luxurious, neat, opulent, ornate, polished, refined, simple, stately, stylish, stylized, sumptuous, affected, appropriate, apt, aristocratic, artistic, august, choice, clever, comely, courtly, cultivated, cultured, dainty, effective, fine, genteel, ingenious, majestic, modish, nice, noble, ornamented, ostentatious, overdone, rare, recherché, rich, select, stuffy, superior, turgid, well-bred