Meaning of ELEGANT
| Pronunciation: | | 'elugunt
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- [adj] refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] of seemingly effortless beauty in form or proportion
- [adj] suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
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| | Synonyms: | | bijou, courtly, dandified, dandyish, de luxe, deluxe, dignified, exquisite, fine, foppish, formal, gracious, high-class, high-toned, luxe, luxury(a), neat, recherche, refined, ritzy, soigne, soignee, stately, tasteful |
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| | Antonyms: | | inelegant | | |
| | See Also: | | graceful, in good taste(p), sophisticated | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \El"e*gant\, a. [L. elegans, -antis; akin to eligere to
pick out, choose, select: cf. F. ['e]l['e]gant. 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.
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| | Definition: | | (From Mathematics) Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than "clever", "winning" or even cuspy. The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exup'ery, probably best known for his classic children's book "The Little Prince", was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." [Jargon File] |
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