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Definition of elegant

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Elegant (a.) 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..

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Inelegancy :: Inelegancy (n.) The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace; want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners..

Euplectella :: Euplectella (n.) A genus of elegant, glassy sponges, consisting of interwoven siliceous fibers, and growing in the form of a cornucopia; -- called also Venus's flower-basket..

Tasty :: Tasty (n.) Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress..

Concinnous :: Concinnous (a.) Characterized by concinnity; neat; elegant.

Robe :: Robe (v. t.) An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like..

Quaint :: Quaint (a.) Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat.

Penduline :: Penduline (n.) A European titmouse (Parus, / Aegithalus, pendulinus). It is noted for its elegant pendulous purselike nest, made of the down of willow trees and lined with feathers..

Belles-lettres :: Belles-lettres (n. pl.) Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.

Invulgar :: Invulgar (a.) Not vulgar; refined; elegant.

Urbane :: Urbane (a.) Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.

Elegancy :: Elegancy (n.) The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc..

Inelegantly :: Inelegantly (adv.) In an inelegant manner.

Courtlike :: Courtlike (a.) After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.

Gazelle :: Gazelle (n.) One of several small, swift, elegantly formed species of antelope, of the genus Gazella, esp. G. dorcas; -- called also algazel, corinne, korin, and kevel. The gazelles are celebrated for the luster and soft expression of their eyes..

Pretty :: Pretty (superl.) Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem..

Enough :: Enough (a.) Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs..

Gent :: Gent (a.) Neat; pretty; fine; elegant.

Vase :: Vase (n.) A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland..

Superb :: Superb (a.) Rich; elegant; as, superb furniture or decorations..

Inelegancy :: Inelegancy (n.) Anything inelegant; as, inelegance of style in literary composition..