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elegant
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elegant as in:  an elegant gown

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She was an elegant bride.
elegant = refined and tasteful
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    It was an elegant dinner party.
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    I am an elegant fellow in her pictures, with my silver back gleaming like moon on moss.  (source)
    elegant = attractive
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    But these unbelievably elegant apartments will be shown by appointment only.  (source)
    elegant = refined and tasteful
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    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.  (source)
    elegant = comprehensively and stylishly designed
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    I felt exposed by the elegance and yet somehow made invisible by it.  (source)
    elegance = refinement (fine style and tastefulness)
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    A sword angled elegantly off of his hip, and circling his waist was a broad webbed belt embellished with an enormous metal buckle.  (source)
    elegantly = in a refined and tasteful manner
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    I grab a few dollars from the cash stash in my purse, round out my drawer, stow my inelegant green smock on a hook in the back room, run to the bathroom to take a quick peek in the mirror.†  (source)
    inelegant = not refined and tasteful
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inelegant means not and reverses the meaning of elegant. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Inelegantly executed, perhaps, but effective.†  (source)
    Inelegantly = in a way that is not refined and tasteful
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inelegantly means not and reverses the meaning of elegantly. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    CYRANO: True; all my elegances are within.†  (source)
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    One, power; and two, inelegance.†  (source)
    inelegance = lacking refinement and good taste
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inelegance means not and reverses the meaning of elegance. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    But he loves it for its elegancy, not for its austerity.†  (source)
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    He held up an elegant hand.  (source)
    elegant = refined and attractive
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    The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale.  (source)
    elegance = grace and style
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elegant as in:  as elegant equation

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It is an elegant solution that will reduce complexity and save material.
elegant = a solution that is simpler (and often more comprehensive) than most would anticipate
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    Einstein's Theory of Relativity was an elegant solution to the contradiction that a constant speed of light created within Newtonian physics.
    elegant = simple (and often more comprehensive) than most would anticipate
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    But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map.  (source)
    elegant = simple and effective
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    It was an elegant deception, a mental pirouette.  (source)
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    I fully concede, however, that the Book is a more elegant solution.  (source)
    elegant = simple and effective
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    It was the sheer elegance of it that pleased her most.  (source)
    elegance = simplicity and effectiveness
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    "The smallfolk will love you more if you are kind," she had said, so Cersei had ordered the value of the gowns deducted from the women's wages, a much more elegant solution.  (source)
    elegant = simple and effective
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    Nor should they, but there are more elegant solutions than yours.  (source)
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    "A most elegant solution," Angela proclaimed, "but who, pray tell, provides the continuous stream of energy needed to maintain this counterspell?"  (source)
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    It was a beautiful, deadly weapon, but just by looking at it, Eragon could see that Rhunon had forged Tamerlein for a person with a fighting style different from his own, a style that relied more on cutting and slashing than the faster, more elegant techniques Brom had taught him.  (source)
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    Eragon watched with amazement as his hands transformed the crude lump of metal into an elegant instrument of war.  (source)
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