Definition: 1. Refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style. 2. Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth. 3. Of seemingly effortless beauty in form or proportion. 4. Refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court.
Use 'elegant' in a sentence:
1. In the elegant surroundings of a drawing-room, interior designer Pierre-Yves Rochon sips jasmine tea from a porcelain cup.
2. Some of the embroideries are in bold, bright colours; others are quietly elegant.
3. The elegant study in this 4-bedroom home provides quiet privacy from the big family room and adjoining dinette and kitchen.
4. She directed my verdict with an elegant little shake of the ponytail that peeped out from beneath her wig.
5. The fact is that no matter how nicely we dress, or how beautifully we decorate our home, we can't be truly elegant unless we have good manners because elegance and good manners go always hand in hand.
6. Its once-elegant white pillars are peeling.
7. The most elegant woman I've ever met – she had class in every sense of the word.
8. Truly elegant chopsticks might be made of gold and embossed in silver with Chinese calligraphy.
9. Lord White is as sleek and elegant as any other multi millionaire businessman.
10. The design on this quilt cover is quite elegant.
11. A man's demeanor is high and elegant.
12. Two elegant Scotsmen travelling together wore dashing kilts at dinner.
13. The lady wears an elegant pink suit.
14. He looked like a miniature version of his handsome and elegant big brother.
15. She produces elegant wedding gowns in a variety of sumptuous fabrics.
16. The room was in an elegant style.
17. He was a baroque figure dressed in theatrical, but elegant, clothes.
18. The fashion model adopted an elegant pose.
19. Older women look best in classically elegant styles.
20. Truly elegant chopsticks might be made of gold and silver with Chinese characters.
21. This poem is elegant and sublime, and the lines are full of spring longing.
22. Years have rolled by, and who is this elegant lady of uncertain age alighting at London Station?
23. "Hey, aren't you from Mississippi?" the elegant, white-haired writer remembered being asked by the stranger.
24. The document impressed me with its elegant simplicity.
25. the elegant, white-haired writer remembered being asked by the stranger.
26. An elegant occasional table is framed in the window.
27. I have seen this place—it is elegant, inside and out.
28. 'It's hardly what I'd call elegant,' she sniffed.
29. His idea of an elegant dinner was macaroni cheese with a kipper thrown in, and with pages of the Financial Times spread on the table as a cloth.
30. I recently visited the elegant website of a design agency.
31. Rodney was a cheerful, elegant and gregarious if rather contentious man.
32. The exterior of the building was elegant and graceful.
33. Long is Britain's best-known Land Artist and his Stone Circle, a perfect ring of purplish rocks from Portishead beach laid out on the gallery floor, represents the elegant, rarefied side of the form.
34. I was extremely inspired by the elegant way the words sounded.
35. She was tall and elegant.
36. He puffed constantly through an elegant cigarette holder.
37. Mathematicians describe his results as elegant and beautiful but they are much too complex to be appreciated by laymen.
38. People are absorbed into a "culture of consumption" launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered "vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere".
39. His mother was an elegant, cultivated woman.
40. The exterior of the building was a masterpiece of architecture, elegant and graceful.
41. Patricia looked beautiful and elegant as always.
42. She brought in a tray heavy with elegant sandwiches, scones and cakes.
43. Those subtle patterns on the silk look elegant.
44. Lord White is as sleek and elegant as any other millionaire businessman.
45. Her elegant style sets her apart from other journalists.
46. He looked relaxed and elegant and had the patina of success.
47. You are very elegant, wise, and compassionate.
48. She is always so chic, so elegant.
49. The company manufactured elegant railway carriages.
50. The prose is written in a refreshing and elegant style.
