elegant

From Middle French elegant, ultimately from Latin elegans.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛl.ə.ɡənt/

elegant (comparative more elegant, superlative most elegant)

1. Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.
   • 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better‎, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:

     You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.

2. Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.

   an elegant solution

3. (Ireland, colloquial, archaic) Fine; doing well.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

     'An' how are ye, Jemmie—how's every inch iv you?' enquired Moggy of the boy, when his agitation was a little blown over.
     'I'm elegant, thank ye,' he answered; 'an' what's the matther wid ye all? I cum through the kitchen, and seen no one.'

• (exhibiting elegance): classy, graceful

• clumsy
• haphazard
• inelegant

• elegance

• angelet

• Rhymes: -ant

elegant (masculine and feminine plural elegants)

1. elegant

Borrowed from French élégant, from Latin ēlegāns.

• IPA^(key): /eləɡant/, [eləˈɡ̊anˀd̥]

elegant

1. elegant, smart
2. elegant, neat
3. (adverbial) elegantly, smartly, neatly

• uelegant

• “elegant” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle French elegant.

• (Southern) IPA^(key): /eləˈɣɑnt/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /eləˈxɑnt/

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elegant (comparative eleganter, superlative elegantst)

1. elegant

• sierlijk
• gracieus

• lomp
• plomp

• elegantie

• gelaten

Borrowed from Middle French elegant.

• IPA^(key): /eleˈɡant/, /eləˈɡant/

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• Rhymes: -ant

elegant (comparative eleganter, superlative am elegantesten)

1. elegant

• elegant in Duden online

elegant m (feminine singular elegante, masculine plural elegants, feminine plural elegantes)

1. elegant

From Latin elegans, via French élégant

elegant (neuter singular elegant, definite singular and plural elegante)

1. elegant

• eleganse

• “elegant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin elegans, via French élégant

elegant (neuter singular elegant, definite singular and plural elegante)

1. elegant

• eleganse

• “elegant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin elegans, via French élégant

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛlɛˈɡant/

elegant (comparative elegantare, superlative elegantast)

1. elegant

• elegans c (noun)

• elegant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
• elegant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.