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Definition of Elegant
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.

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

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Elegant Quotations

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
Vanna White

Elegant Translations

elegant in Afrikaans is elegant
elegant in Dutch is bevallig, elegant, piekfijn, net
elegant in German is elegant, elegante
elegant in Italian is elegante
elegant in Latin is mundus, teres, lepidus, lautus
elegant in Norwegian is smakfull, elegant
elegant in Portuguese is elegante, esbelto
elegant in Spanish is elegante
elegant in Swedish is sirlig, elegant, stilfull


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