elegant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style

   elegant handwriting

2. 2
   adj

   displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution

   an elegant dancer

3. 3
   adj

   Characterised by or exhibiting elegance; having grace, refinement, or tasteful simplicity.

   You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.

4. 4
   adj

   Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.

   an elegant solution

5. 5
   adj

   Fine; doing well.

   'An' how are ye, Jemmie—how's every inch iv you?' enquired Moggy of the boy, when his agitation was a little blown over. 'I'm elegant, thank ye,' he answered; 'an' what's the matther wid ye all? I cum through the kitchen, and seen no one.'

6. 6
   noun

   An elegant parrot.

   But if the Aviarist be ambitious to keep the lovely, but destructive, members of the Parrot family, he must be content with grass alone, because Parrakeets (except the weak-billed Turquoisines and Elegants) would destroy the shrubs and trees in a day.

7. 7
   adj

   suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

Etymology

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”).