Definitions of elegant [ˈɛl ɪ gənt]

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Definition of 'elegant'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) elegant
splendid or luxurious in dress, style, design, etc.

2.  elegant
polished and dignified, as in tastes, behavior, or literary style.

3.  elegant
graceful in form or movement.

4.  elegant
of superior quality; exceptional:
an elegant gift.

5.  elegant
(of theories, solutions, computer programs, etc.) gracefully concise and simple; admirably succinct.

Etymology: (1400–50; < L ēlegant-, s. of ēlegāns fastidious, tasteful, formally prp. of *ēlegāre, durative der. of ēligere; see elect)

Definition of 'elegant'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) elegant
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"

2. (adj) elegant, graceful, refined
suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

3. (adj) elegant
displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution
"an elegant dancer"; "an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise"

Definition of 'elegant'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) elegant
beautiful and graceful
a tall elegant woman; an elegant building

Definition of 'elegant'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) elegant
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

2. (adj) elegant
exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste

Definitions of 'elegant'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. elegant
[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-Exupéry, 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.”

Translation of 'elegant'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: having or showing stylishness elegant clothes; You look elegant today.
Afrikaans: elegansie, sierlikheid	Arabic: أنيق، مُتْقَن	Bulgarian: елегантен
Brazilian: elegante	Czech: elegantní	German: elegant
Danish: elegant; raffineret; udsø	Greek: κομψός	Spanish: elegante
Estonian: elegantne	Farsi: زیبا؛ خوش طرح	Finnish: elegantti
French: élégant	Hebrew: מְהוּדָר	Hindi: सुरुचिपूर्ण
Croatian: elegantan	Hungarian: elegáns	Indonesian: bergaya
Icelandic: myndarlegur; glæsilegur,	Italian: elegante	Japanese: 優雅な
Korean: 우아한	Lithuanian: elegantiškas	Latvian: elegants
Malay: anggun	Dutch: elegant	Norwegian: elegant, smakfull
Polish: elegancki	Persian: زیبا؛ خوش طرح	Pashto: خوږ ژبى، ظريف، ښه ذوقى
Portuguese: elegante	Romanian: elegant	Russian: элегантный
Slovak: elegantný	Slovenian: eleganten	Serbian: elegantan
Swedish: elegant	Thai: ทันสมัย	Turkish: şık, zarif
Taiwanese: 雅致的	Ukrainian: вишуканий, елегантний	Urdu: با وقار
Vietnamese: thanh lịch	Chinese: 雅致的
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