1 (of people or their behaviour) graceful and attractive:
She was tall and elegant.
2 (of clothes, places and things) attractive and designed well:
an elegant dress * an elegant room / restaurant
3 (of a plan or an idea) clever but simple:
an elegant solution to the problem
elegance noun [U]:
She dresses with casual elegance. * His writing combines elegance and wit.
elegantly adverb:
elegantly dressed * elegantly furnished * He leaned elegantly against the door.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for elegant is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is elegant a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, elegant is tagged as adjective.
Does elegant appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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