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
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.
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
28 February 2025
(adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules; “prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage”
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red – indicating ripeness – they are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.
