ELEGANT
Dictionary entry overview: What does elegant mean?
• ELEGANT (adjective)
The adjective ELEGANT has 3 senses:
1. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style
2. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
3. displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution
Familiarity information: ELEGANT used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• ELEGANT (adjective)
Meaning:
Refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style
Context examples:
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
Similar:
ritzy (luxuriously elegant)
soigne; soignee (polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance)
neat; refined; tasteful (free from what is tawdry or unbecoming)
exquisite; recherche (lavishly elegant and refined)
high-class; high-toned (pretentiously elegant)
fine (characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment)
de luxe; deluxe; luxe (elegant and sumptuous)
dandified; dandyish; foppish (affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner)
Also:
tasteful (having or showing or conforming to good taste)
sophisticated (having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire)
refined ((used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel)
graceful (characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution)
dignified (having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance)
Antonym:
inelegant (lacking in refinement or grace or good taste)
Meaning:
Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
Synonyms:
elegant; graceful; refined
Similar:
gracious (characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit)
Meaning:
Displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution
Context examples:
an elegant dancer / an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise
Similar:
graceful (characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution)
