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Adjective: elegant  elugunt
  1. Refined and tasteful in appearance or behaviour 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. Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
    - graceful, refined
     
  3. Displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution
    "an elegant dancer"; "an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise"

See also: dandified, dandyish, de luxe, deluxe, dignified, elegance, elegantly, exquisite, fine, foppish, graceful, gracious, high-class, high-toned [N. Amer], luxe, neat, recherché, refined, ritzy, soigné, soignée, sophisticated, tasteful

Antonym: inelegant

Encyclopedia: Elegant