[el-i-guh
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| 1. | tastefully fine or luxurious in dress, style, design, etc.: elegant furnishings. |
| 2. | gracefully refined and dignified, as in tastes, habits, or literary style: an elegant young gentleman; an elegant prosodist. |
| 3. | graceful in form or movement: an elegant wave of the hand. |
| 4. | appropriate to refined taste: a man devoted to elegant pursuits. |
| 5. | excellent; fine; superior: an absolutely elegant wine. |
| 6. | (of scientific, technical, or mathematical theories, solutions, etc.) gracefully concise and simple; admirably succinct. |
| el·e·gant (ěl'ĭ-gənt) adj. Characterized by or exhibiting refined, tasteful beauty of manner, form, or style. See Synonyms at delicate. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin ēlegāns, ēlegant-, present participle of *ēlegāre, variant of ēligere, to select; see elect.] el'e·gant·ly adv. |
