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elegantly

elegantly adverb: gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.

Adverb

elegantly (comparative more elegantly, superlative most elegantly)

  1. Gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.
    • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN
    • Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally...2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 Aug...

elegantly meaning in Tamil

elegantly in Tamil

பொற்ப

Examples of elegantly in a sentence

  • I draped myself elegantly over the couch.
  • Rodey McQueen speechified elegantly about the necessity for harmony.
  • Cary Grant imparts his ineffable charm, Kennedy (with metal hand) provides comic brutality, while Hepburn is elegantly fraught.

All 18 example sentences with elegantly

Forms of elegantly

comparativemore elegantly
superlativemost elegantly

Origin of elegantly

From elegant + -ly.

Questions about elegantly

What does elegantly mean?
Elegantly means gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.
What is elegantly in Tamil?
Elegantly in Tamil is பொற்ப. See Elegantly meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is elegantly?
Elegantly is an adverb.

Words near elegantly in the dictionary

  1. elegant variation
  2. elegant variations
  3. elegante
  4. elegantes
  5. elegantin
  6. elegantly
  7. elegantness
  8. elegants
  9. elegiac
  10. elegiac pentameter
  11. elegiacal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: elegantly (page history and authors); elegantly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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