more elegant

ADJECTIVE

beautiful, tasteful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

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

WEAK

affected 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 stuffy superior turgid well-bred

Antonyms

STRONGEST

common dull inferior insignificant old-fashioned plain poor ugly undignified unfashionable unimpressive

WEAK

crude inelegant rough unrefined unsophisticated untasteful

Example Sentences

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more elegant

By the 1990s, with his investments in more elegant buildings downtown, he was playing golf with Trump, and their families hung out together.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

The doors in the room are in the wrong place and the whole room has been made to look more elegant than it was.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

In my experience, the yogurt parfait is often more elegant in name than in execution.

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026

The 34-year-old is not the most recgonised batter in this XI - that is the more elegant captain Laura Wolvaardt - but her run of form is stunning.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025

“It’s just that, uh, you’re so much more elegant than I am.”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart