ELEGANT

elegant

(adjective) refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; “elegant handwriting”; “an elegant dark suit”; “she was elegant to her fingertips”; “small churches with elegant white spires”; “an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid”

elegant

(adjective) displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution; “an elegant dancer”; “an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise”

elegant, graceful, refined

(adjective) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

elegant (comparative more elegant, superlative most elegant)

Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.

Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.

(Ireland, colloquial, archaic) Fine; doing well.

Synonyms

• (exhibiting elegance): classy, graceful

Antonyms

• clumsy

• haphazard

• inelegant

Anagrams

• angelet

Source: Wiktionary

El"e*gant, a. Etym: [L. elegans, -antis; akin to eligere to pick out, choose, select: cf. F. élégant. See Elect.]

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’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition