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单词 elegant
释义 elegant
 —elegantly,  adv.  
 /el"i geuhnt/,  adj.  
  1. tastefully fine or luxurious in dress, style, design, etc.: elegant furnishings.
  2. gracefully refined and dignified, as in tastes, habits, or literary style: an elegant young gentleman; an elegant prosodist.
  3. graceful in form or movement: an elegant wave of the hand.
  4. appropriate to refined taste: a man devoted to elegant pursuits.
  5. excellent; fine; superior: an absolutely elegant wine.
  6. (of scientific, technical, or mathematical theories, solutions, etc.) gracefully concise and simple; admirably succinct.
 [1400-50; late ME ( < MF) < L elegant- (s. of elegans) tasteful, choice, equiv. to eleg- (akin to elig- select; see ELECT) + -ant- -ANT; orig. prp. of lost v.]
 Syn. 1. See fine. 2. polished, courtly.
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