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Adjective: elegant  e-lu-gunt
  1. Refined and tasteful in appearance, behaviour or style
    "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solutionsimple and precise and lucid"; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"
     
  2. Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
    "The elegant dinner party showcased their refined tastes";
    - graceful, refined
     
  3. Displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution
    "an elegant dancer"; "an elegant mathematical solutionsimple and precise"

See also: dandified, dandyish, de luxe, deluxe, dignified, exquisite, fine, foppish, graceful, gracious, high-class, high-toned [N. Amer], luxe, recherché, refined, ritzy, soigné, soignée, sophisticated, tasteful, tasty [US, informal]

Antonym: inelegant

Encyclopedia: Elegant, Robert