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Webster 1913 Edition


Elegant

El′e-gant

,
Adj.
[L.
elegans
,
-antis
; akin to
eligere
to pick out, choose, select: cf. F.
élégant
. See
Elect
.]
1.
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.
A more diligent cultivation of
elegant
literature.
Prescott.
Syn. – Tasteful; polished; graceful; refined; comely; handsome; richly ornamental.

Webster 1828 Edition


Elegant

EL'EGANT

,
Adj.
[L. elegans.] Polished; polite; refined; graceful; pleasing to good taste; as elegant manners.
1.
Polished, neat; pure; rich in expressions; correct in arrangement; as an elegant style or composition.
2.
Uttering or delivering elegant language with propriety and grace; as an elegant speaker.
3.
Symmetrical; regular; well formed in its parts, proportions and distribution; as an elegant structure.
4.
Nice; sensible to beauty; discriminating beauty from deformity or imperfection; as an elegant taste. [This is a loose application of the word; elegant being used for delicate.]
5.
Beautiful in form and colors; pleasing; as an elegant flower.
6.
Rich; costly and ornamental; as elegant furniture or equipage.

Definition 2024


êlégant

êlégant

See also: elegant and élégant

Norman

Adjective

êlégant m

  1. (Jersey) elegant