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Elegant Elegantly Describe Elegance Person Thing Pleasing Graceful

query
If you describe a person or thing as e______, you mean that they are pleasing and graceful in appearance or style.If you describe a person or thing as elegant, you mean that they are pleasing and graceful in appearance or style.
Patricia looked beautiful and elegant as always.
...an elegant restaurant.
...the princess's understated elegance.
The furniture managed to combine practicality with elegance.
...a tall, elegantly dressed man with a mustache.
word elegant
full-definition
adjective
If you describe a person or thing as elegant, you mean that they are pleasing and graceful in appearance or style.
Patricia looked beautiful and elegant as always.
...an elegant restaurant.
...the princess's understated elegance.
The furniture managed to combine practicality with elegance.
...a tall, elegantly dressed man with a mustache.
If you describe a piece of writing, an idea, or a plan as elegant, you mean that it is simple, clear, and clever .
The document impressed me with its elegant simplicity.
...an elegantly simple idea.
inflections eleganceelegantlyelegantly
cefr-level B2

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2

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