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English

Etymology

From élégant.

Pronunciation

IPA: /elegænt/

Translations

CJK Characters: 彥, 彦; 蘭, 兰; 离; 姱; 雅
Chinese: 典雅的 (diǎn yǎ de), 优雅的 (yōu yǎ de)
Dutch: ,
Finnish:
French:
German:
Greek: {{t+|el|κομψός|sc=Grek}}
Hungarian: ,
Italian:

Japanese: 優雅な
Korean: {{t-|ko|우아한|sc=Hang}}
Kurdish:
: Sorani: {{t|ku|شۆخ|tr=shokh|sc=KUchar}}
Portuguese:
Russian: {{t+|ru|шикарный|sc=Cyrl}}
Serbian: elegantno
Spanish: ,
Urdu: شائسته

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Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA: /eləˈɣɑnt/
IPA: /eləˈxɑnt/

Adjective

#English|elegant

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German

Adjective

#English|elegant

de:elegant fr:elegant io:elegant it:elegant hu:elegant nl:elegant no:elegant pl:elegant pt:elegant fi:elegant sv:elegant ta:elegant te:elegant vi:elegant tr:elegant uk:elegant zh:elegant

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Elegant \El"e*gant\, a. [L. elegans, -antis; akin to eligere to
pick out, choose, select: cf. F. ['e]l['e]gant. See Elect.]
1. 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.
[1913 Webster]

A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature.
--Prescott.
[1913 Webster]

2. Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or
sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.

Syn: Tasteful; polished; graceful; refined; comely; handsome;
richly ornamental.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet elegant
adj 1: refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style;
"elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she
was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with
elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical
solution--simple and precise and lucid" [ant: inelegant]
2: suggesting taste, ease, and wealth [syn: graceful, refined]
3: of seemingly effortless beauty in form or proportion
4: refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a
royal court; "a courtly gentleman" [syn: courtly, formal,
stately]

Moby Dictionary
Attic , Babylonian , Ciceronian , Corinthian , advantageous , aesthetic ,
aesthetically appealing , apt , arabesque , artistic , attractive ,
august , auspicious , awe-inspiring , awful , barbaric , baroque ,
beauteous , beautiful , becoming , beneficial , benevolent , bon , bonny ,
braw , bueno , busy , capital , chaste , chic , chichi , choice ,
civilized , classic , classy , clear , clever , clothes-conscious ,
cogent , comely , commendable , cosmopolitan , courtly , cultivated ,
cultured , dainty , dapper , dashing , debonair , decent , decorous ,
delicate , deluxe , dignified , direct , discerning , discriminating ,
dressed to advantage , dressed to kill , easy , elaborate ,
endowed with beauty , estimable , euphemistic , euphuistic , excellent ,
expedient , exquisite , extravagant , eye-filling , facile , fair ,
famous , fancy , fashionable , fastidious , favorable , fine , finished ,
flamboyant , florid , flowerlike , flowery , flowing , fluent ,
formalistic , frilly , fussy , genteel , glorious , good , goodly ,
goody good-good , goody-goody , graceful , gracile , gracious , grand ,
grandiose , handsome , healthy , heavy , helpful , high-wrought ,
imposing , impressive , in , ingenious , jaunty , kind , labored ,
laudable , limpid , lovely , lucid , luxuriant , luxurious , magnificent ,
majestic , mincing , modest , modish , moresque , namby-pamby , natty ,
natural , neat , nice , nifty , nobby , noble , opulent , ornate ,
ostentatious , overelaborate , overelegant , overlabored , overnice ,
overprecise , overrefined , overworked , overwrought , palatial ,
pedantic , pellucid , perspicuous , picturesque , plain , pleasant ,
pleasing , plush , polished , posh , precieuse , precious , precisian ,
precisianistic , precisionistic , pretty , pretty-pretty , princely ,
profitable , proper , proud , pulchritudinous , pure , puristic , rare ,
recherche , refined , regal , restrained , rich , ritzy , rococo , round ,
royal , seemly , select , sharp , simpering , simple , skillful , sleek ,
smart , smooth , smug , snazzy , soigne , soignee , sophisticated , sound ,
spiffy , splendacious , splendid , splendiferous , spruce , stately ,
straightforward , style-conscious , stylish , suave , subtle ,
sumptuous , superb , superfancy , superfine , superior , swank , swanky ,
swell , tasteful , terse , tricksy , trig , trim , tripping , unaffected ,
unlabored , urbane , useful , valid , very good , virtuous , well-bred ,
well-dressed , well-groomed , with it

Jargon elegant adj. [common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity,
power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than
`clever', `winning', or even cuspy.

The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exupe'ry,
probably best known for his classic children's book "The Little Prince",
was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of
engineering elegance when he said "A designer knows he has achieved
perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is
nothing left to take away."

FOLDOC elegant

(From Mathematics) Combining simplicity, power, and a certain
ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than "clever",
"winning" or even cuspy.

The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de
Saint-Exup'ery, probably best known for his classic children's
book "The Little Prince", was also an aircraft designer. He
gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance
when he said "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not
when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing
left to take away."

[Jargon File]

(1994-11-29)

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