English > elegant: 3 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style. |
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| 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"
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| Narrower | dandified, dandyish, foppish | affecting extreme / extreme elegance in dress and manner |
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| deluxe, de luxe, luxe | Elegant and sumptuous |
| exquisite, recherche | lavishly elegant and refined |
| fine | Characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment |
| high-class, high-toned | pretentiously elegant |
| ritzy | luxuriously elegant |
| soigne, soignee | polished and well-groomed |
| See also | dignified | Having or expressing dignity |
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| graceful | Characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution |
| refined | (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel |
| sophisticated | Having or appealing to those having worldly / worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire |
| tasteful | Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming |
| Opposite | inelegant | lacking in refinement or grace or good taste |
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| Spanish | chic, elegante |
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| Catalan | elegant |
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| Nouns | elegance | a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste |
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| Adverbs | elegantly | with elegance |
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