elegant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Graceful and stylish in a way that shows good taste.

   She wore an elegant black dress to the dinner.

2. 2
   adj

   Pleasingly simple and clever, especially in solving a problem.

   The engineer came up with an elegant solution to the design problem.

Common collocations

• elegant handwriting Adjective + noun

From Late Middle English elegaunt, from Middle French elegant, ultimately from Latin ēlegāns, collateral form of present participle of ēligere, from ex- (“out of, from”) + legō (“choose, select, appoint”).

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