Thesaurus: elegant

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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.
2. a. Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
3. adj. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style
4. adj. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
5. adj. displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution
6. 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. A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature. Prescott. 2. Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste. Syn. -- Tasteful; polished; graceful; refined; comely; handsome; richly ornamental.
7. j:100 a. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style s. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth s. displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution