ELEGANTLY

elegantly

(adverb) in a gracefully elegant manner; “the members of these groups do not express themselves as accurately or as elegantly as their critics do”

elegantly

(adverb) with elegance; in a tastefully elegant manner; “the room was elegantly decorated”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

elegantly (comparative more elegantly, superlative most elegantly)

Gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.

Source: Wiktionary


El"e*gant*ly, adv.

Definition: In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.

ELEGANT

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



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UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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