Sample sentences for ELEGANT - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
an elegant gown

Definition

refined and tasteful in appearance, behavior or style

elegant = refined and tasteful

Other Uses (with this meaning)

elegant = refined and tasteful

I look, as I always do in Julia's pictures, like an elegant fellow, but something is different about this drawing.
Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan

elegant = attractive

All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

elegant = comprehensively and stylishly designed

Dad had named me after her; Mom suggested adding the second N to make it more elegant and French. [Jeannette]
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

elegant = refined and tasteful

She thought about the mayor, down in his room full of plunder, gorging on peaches and asparagus and wrapping his huge body in elegant new clothes.
Jeanne DuPrau -- The City of Ember

elegant = refined and tasteful

A sword angled elegantly off of his hip, and circling his waist was a broad webbed belt embellished with an enormous metal buckle.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

elegantly = in a refined and tasteful manner

elegant = refined and attractive

She'd permed her hair, I saw, and wore an elegant, ankle-length black dress.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

elegant = refined and tasteful

Did it seem likely that his mother, who sat so elegantly in meeting, had ever touched a choke-weed?
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond

elegantly = in a refined and tasteful manner

2 —as in:
as elegant equation

Definition

a solution that is simpler (and often more comprehensive) than most would anticipate

elegant = a solution that is simpler (and often more comprehensive) than most would anticipate

Other Uses (with this meaning)

Einstein's Theory of Relativity was an elegant solution to the contradiction that a constant speed of light created within Newtonian physics.

elegant = a solution that is simpler (and often more comprehensive) than most would anticipate

But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

elegant = simple and effective

elegant = simple and effective

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