elegant
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3.4
- adjective
- /ˈɛlɪɡənt/
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elegante
- The dancer moved with an elegant grace that captivated the audience.
- simple and elegant
- an elegant solution
- an elegant proof
It's, it's, it's so, it's so simple, It's so elegant, It's so brilliant.
- It's, it's, it's so, it's so simple, It's so elegant, It's so brilliant.
- And in a sense, complex vector spaces are more powerful, more elegant, have stronger results.
- So even if you could outwit them, I suggest that you take the elegant way and quietly leave.
- It's a simple Changing these is easy and I commend them on such a elegant system.
- Maybe I'll do an acting challenge to try to truncate in a creative, elegant way.
- He says I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.
- You create the offer by obsessing over their problem and figuring out an elegant, efficient, effective solution for them.
Examples
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As I said earlier, it is a fairly elegant solution to an intellectual problem.
Academic text (1990) -
Look at this incredibly elegant situation.
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Then I saw guys that were elegant and powerful.
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It's still a very elegant, elegant building.
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Doug and company had managed a truly elegant bit of engineering.
Fiction book (2002) -
The way he described it, it sounded so lovely, elegant without being flashy.
Fiction book (2002) -
You create the offer by obsessing over their problem and figuring out an elegant, efficient, effective solution for them.
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A bit of a lifestyle change, admittedly, but an elegant solution, nonetheless.
Fiction book (2001) -
I've devised a most elegant solution.
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An autoregressive model in continuous time can be described in an elegant way by a differential equation.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
87
2.8
Movement that is smooth and attractive like a dancer or swan
1
3.9
Moving smoothly and elegantly without sudden or awkward movements
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A wildflower from western North America with violet or blue-violet flowers on a leafless stalk
How Elegant
Surface Forms
Etymology
Elegant comes from the Latin word elegans, from elegere meaning 'to choose', the same root behind elect and select. That's why an elegant solution or movement feels simple, clever, and perfectly 'chosen' — smooth and effective.