- 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. Source: opted
- 2. a. Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste. Source: opted
- 3. adj. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style Source: wordnet
- 4. adj. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 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 Source: ecdict
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