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Adjective elegant has 4 senses
- elegant - refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior 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"
Antonyms: inelegant, gauche, graceless, unpolished, homely
- elegant, graceful, refined - suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
Antonym: ungracious (indirect, via gracious)
- elegant - of seemingly effortless beauty in form or proportion
Antonym: awkward (indirect, via graceful)
- courtly, elegant, formal, stately - refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"
Antonym: undignified (indirect, via dignified)
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