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.

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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