elegant

Definition of elegant in English English dictionary: Characterized by or exhibiting elegance; {a} beautiful, pleasing, fine, nice, neat; A distinguished wine with good lineage, harmonious in color and aroma, balanced on the palate, with a good bouquet and the right period of aging (Tasting term); If you describe a piece of writing, an idea, or a plan as elegant, you mean that it is simple, clear, and clever. The document impressed me with its elegant simplicity. + elegantly el·egant·ly an elegantly simple idea; A subjective word for a very well balanced beer; with multifarious but subdued flavor notes, also distinguished, fine, noble, great; It is said of a delicate, harmonious wine; 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"; refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"; Harmonious wine; Used to describe wines of grace, balance and beauty; Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste; of seemingly effortless beauty in form or proportion suggesting taste, ease, and wealth; of seemingly effortless beauty in form or proportion; 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; Refined character, distinguished quality, stylish, not heavy; What to say when there is great balance and grace in the wine, but you can't quite find apt words of description Almost a synonym for "breed"; (in the mathematical sense) = Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design (definition from The Jargon File); {s} refined, tasteful; graceful; luxurious; If you describe a person or thing as elegant, you mean that they are pleasing and graceful in appearance or style. Patricia looked beautiful and elegant as always. an elegant restaurant. = stylish + elegance el·egance Princess Grace's understated elegance + elegantly el·egant·ly a tall, elegantly dressed man with a mustache; suggesting taste, ease, and wealth; chic
elegant crested tinamou: A tinamou, Eudromia elegans
elegant crested tinamous: plural form of elegant crested tinamou
elegant sufficiency: (deyim) The phrase seems to be a variation on a polite rejoinder that was once quite widely known and is still around. A host might ask if you have had enough to eat. Rather than just say that you had had enough, being fearful that so bald a statement might be taken as unrefined or ill-bred, you might instead say, “I’ve had an elegant sufficiency”
elegant brodiaea: brodiaea having an umbel of violet or blue-violet flowers atop a leafless stalk; northern Oregon to southern California
elegant habenaria: slender inland rein orchid similar to coastal rein orchid but with pale greenish-yellow flowers
elegant lady: fashionable woman
elegant look: neat and well-groomed style of dress
elegantly: {a} in a pleasing manner, finely, well
I’ve had an elegant sufficiency: (deyim) The phrase seems to be a variation on a polite rejoinder that was once quite widely known and is still around. A host might ask if you have had enough to eat. Rather than just say that you had had enough, being fearful that so bald a statement might be taken as unrefined or ill-bred, you might instead say, “I’ve had an elegant sufficiency”
elegantly: with elegance; in a tastefully elegant manner; "the room was elegantly decorated"
elegantly: gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style
elegantly: with elegance; in a tastefully elegant manner; "the room was elegantly decorated
elegantly: In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly
elegantly: in a refined manner, tastefully; gracefully; luxuriously
elegantly: in a gracefully elegant manner; "the members of these groups do not express themselves as accurately or as elegantly as their critics do"
elegantly: in a gracefully elegant manner; "the members of these groups do not express themselves as accurately or as elegantly as their critics do" with elegance; in a tastefully elegant manner; "the room was elegantly decorated
sport-elegant: type of clothes which are partially elegant, type of fashion which is both sporty and elegant