elegant
Syllables: el·e·gant/ˈɛləɡənt/
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Australia/ˈeləɡənt/
elegant adjective: characterised by or exhibiting elegance; having grace, refinement, or tasteful simplicity.
Adjective
elegant (comparative more elegant, superlative most elegant)
- Characterised by or exhibiting elegance; having grace, refinement, or tasteful simplicity.
- You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with...2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192
- Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
- an elegant solution
- "For myself, because of the baggage of 30 years of balkanisation, I think the elegant solution is to take operations back into the public sector. It will mean you can have a whole-industry approach to running the railway, unencumbered by contractual differences."2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 41
- Synonyms:
- neat
- Fine; doing well.
- 'An' how are ye, Jemmie—how's every inch iv you?' enquired Moggy of the boy, when his agitation was a little blown over.
'I'm elegant, thank ye,' he answered; 'an' what's the matther wid ye all? I cum through the kitchen, and seen no one.'1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
- 'An' how are ye, Jemmie—how's every inch iv you?' enquired Moggy of the boy, when his agitation was a little blown over.
Noun
elegant (plural elegants)
- An elegant parrot.
- But if the Aviarist be ambitious to keep the lovely, but destructive, members of the Parrot family, he must be content with grass alone, because Parrakeets (except the weak-billed Turquoisines and Elegants) would destroy the shrubs and trees in a day.1895, The Avicultural Magazine, Volume 1, The Avicultural Society for the Study of Foreign and British Birds, page 22
elegant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
elegant in Hindi
- exhibiting elegance
- शोभनीय śobhnīya
elegant in Tamil
- நளினம், நளினமான, அழகான
elegant in Urdu
- exhibiting elegance
- شائسته
elegant in Bengali
- elegant
- পশ poś
More languagesFewer languages
- elegant in Malayalam
- ചടുല caṭula, ചടുലം caṭulaṁ
- elegant in Kannada
- ಚನ್ನು, ಮನೋಹರವಾದ, ಸೊಬಗಿನ, ನಾಜೂಕಾದ
- elegant in Sanskrit
- रसिक rasika
- elegant in Assamese
- শুৱলা xuola
- elegant in Nepali
- सुरुचिपूर्ण
- elegant in Arabic
- ظَرِيف ẓarīf, أَنِيق ʔanīq
- elegant in Vietnamese
- thanh lịch, tao nhã
Examples of elegant in a sentence
- French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking.
- Hannah looked quite elegant in her gown until she snortled and champagne came out of her nose.
- She's so elegant, no matter what she does, she does it in style.
Synonyms of elegant
Antonyms
Forms of elegant
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more elegant |
| superlative | most elegant |
| Noun | |
| plural | elegants |
Origin of elegant
From Late Middle English elegaunt, from Middle French elegant, ultimately from Latin ēlegāns, collateral form of present participle of ēligere, from ex- (“out of, from”) + legō (“choose, select, appoint”).
Words formed from elegant
Phrases with elegant
Questions about elegant
- What does elegant mean?
- Elegant means characterised by or exhibiting elegance; having grace, refinement, or tasteful simplicity.
- What is elegant in Hindi?
- Elegant in Hindi is शोभनीय (śobhnīya). See Elegant meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is elegant?
- Elegant can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce elegant?
- Elegant is pronounced /ˈɛləɡənt/ (UK).
Words near elegant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: elegant (page history and authors); elegant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); পশ (Bengali) (page history and authors); ചടുല (Malayalam) (page history and authors); elegant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); elegant (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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