elegant

UK: /ˈɛlɪgənt/ US: /ˈɛlɪgənt/ ,(el′i gənt)

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el•e•gant /ˈɛlɪgənt/   adj. 

1. graceful, polished, or luxurious in style, design, or form:
   an elegant lady in her seventies.

el•e•gance /ˈɛlɪgəns/  n. [uncountable]
el•e•gant•ly, adv.: 

She was dressed elegantly for the ball.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2023

el•e•gant  (el′i gənt), adj. 

1. tastefully fine or luxurious in dress, style, design, etc.:
   elegant furnishings.
2. gracefully refined and dignified, as in tastes, habits, or literary style:
   an elegant young gentleman; an elegant prosodist.
3. graceful in form or movement:
   an elegant wave of the hand.
4. appropriate to refined taste:
   a man devoted to elegant pursuits.
5. excellent;
   fine;
   superior:
   an absolutely elegant wine.
6. Mathematics (of scientific, technical, or mathematical theories, solutions, etc.) gracefully concise and simple;
   admirably succinct.

• Latin ēlegant- (stem of ēlegāns) tasteful, choice, equivalent. to ēleg- (akin to ēlig- select; see elect) + -ant- -ant; origin, originally present participle of lost verb, verbal
• Middle French)
• late Middle English (1400–50

el′e•gant•ly, adv. 
Synonyms

• 1. See fine. 
• 2. polished, courtly.

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elegant /ˈɛlɪɡənt/ adj

1. tasteful in dress, style, or design
2. dignified and graceful in appearance, behaviour, etc
3. cleverly simple; ingenious: an elegant solution to a problem

Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin ēlegāns tasteful, related to ēligere to select; see elect