elegant

[el-i-guhnt] / ˈɛl ɪ gənt /

ADJECTIVE

beautiful, tasteful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

chic classic delicate dignified exquisite fancy fashionable graceful grand handsome luxurious neat opulent ornate polished refined silk-stocking simple stately stylish stylized sumptuous

WEAK

appropriate apt aristocratic artistic august choice clever comely courtly cultivated cultured dainty effective fine genteel ingenious majestic modish nice noble ornamented ostentatious overdone rare recherché rich select superior well-bred

Antonyms

STRONGEST

common dull inferior old-fashioned plain ugly undignified unfashionable unimpressive

WEAK

crude inelegant rough unrefined unsophisticated untasteful

Example Sentences

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There’s an elegant economy to Lucia’s prose that reads as both skill and survival mechanism.

From Salon

And it comes from an elegant left-hander with a flash of peroxide.

From BBC

Listing images revealed a tasteful interior, with a neutral, elegant palette used throughout the home, which is filled with natural light.

From MarketWatch

Melamine may not be the most elegant material, but I was grateful for the fact that, no matter how violently a 1-year-old dropped that plate, it would bounce and not shatter.

From The Wall Street Journal

The spacious dining area is surrounded by all-white walls and topped by an elegant chandelier.

From MarketWatch

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