What is the meaning of elegant?

adjective

  • Refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style.
    • usage: "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"
  • Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth.
  • Displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution.
    • usage: "an elegant dancer"; "an elegant mathematical solution - simple and precise"
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