(adj) refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style, Ant.inelegant, Example: 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) displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution, Example: an elegant dancer; an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise
a. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
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