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| Main Entry: |
elegant
 [el-i-guhnt] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, tasteful |
| Synonyms: | affected, appropriate, apt, aristocratic, artistic, august, chic, choice, classic, clever, comely, courtly, cultivated, cultured, dainty, delicate, dignified, effective, exquisite, fancy, fashionable, fine, genteel, graceful, grand, handsome, ingenious, luxurious, majestic, modish, neat, nice, noble, opulent, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, polished, rare, recherché, refined, rich, select, simple, stately, stuffy, stylish, stylized, sumptuous, superior, turgid, well-bred |
| Antonyms: | crude, inelegant, rough, ugly, unfashionable, unrefined, unsophisticated, untasteful |
| Main Entry: | artistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, satisfying to senses |
| Synonyms: | aesthetic, creative, cultivated, cultured, decorative, dramatic, elegant, exquisite, fine, graceful, grand, harmonious, ideal, imaginative, musical, ornamental, pictorial, picturesque, pleasing, poetic, refined, rhythmical, sensitive, stimulating, stylish, sublime, tasteful |
| Antonyms: | distasteful, horrible, inelegant, ugly |
| Main Entry: | beautiful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically attractive |
| Synonyms: | admirable, alluring, angelic, appealing, beauteous, bewitching, charming, classy, comely, cute, dazzling, delicate, delightful, divine, elegant, enticing, excellent, exquisite, fair, fascinating, fine, foxy*, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, grand, handsome, ideal, lovely, magnificent, marvelous, nice, pleasing, pretty, pulchritudinous, radiant, ravishing, refined, resplendent, shapely, sightly, splendid, statuesque, stunning, sublime, superb, symmetrical, taking, well-formed, wonderful |
| Antonyms: | disgusting, grotesque, hideous, homely, offensive, plain, repulsive, ugly, unattractive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- This brief book is elegant and surprising.
- This is an elegant, disturbing and thought-provoking novel.
- Evolution is an elegant theory.
| Main Entry: | charming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | captivating |
| Synonyms: | absorbing, alluring, amiable, appealing, attractive, bewitching, charismatic, choice, cute, dainty, delectable, delicate, delightful, desirable, electrifying, elegant, enamoring, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, entrancing, eye-catching, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, graceful, infatuating, inviting, irresistible, likable, lovable, lovely, magnetizing, nice, pleasant, pleasing, provocative, rapturous, ravishing, seducing, seductive, sweet, tantalizing, tempting, titillating, winning, winsome |
| Antonyms: | frightening, irritating, offensive, repellent, repulsing, repulsive, terrifying |
| Main Entry: | chaste |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pure, incorrupt |
| Synonyms: | austere, celibate, clean, continent, controlled, decent, decorous, elegant, immaculate, impotent, inexperienced, innocent, intemerate, modest, monogamous, moral, neat, platonic, proper, prudish, quiet, refined, restrained, simple, spotless, stainless, subdued, unaffected, unblemished, uncontaminated, undefiled, unstained, unsullied, unwed, vestal, virginal, virtuous, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | corrupt, defiled, dirty, lewd, unchaste, wanton |
| Main Entry: | chic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fashionable |
| Synonyms: | chichi*, clean*, current, dap, dapper, dashing, elegant, exclusive, faddish, last word, latest thing, mod, modern, modish, natty, sharp, smart, stylish, swank, trendy, voguish, with-it |
| Antonyms: | dull, old-fashioned, out-moded, unfashionable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | classical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simple, chaste |
| Synonyms: | classic, elegant, harmonious, pure, refined, restrained, symmetrical, understated, well-proportioned |
| Notes: | for classic, assume the meaning 'of the highest class' and 'typical, excellent as an example; timeless' and for classical 'pertaining to or characteristic of Greek or Roman antiquity or civilization' |
| Antonyms: | complicated, modern, unclassical |
| Main Entry: | classy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stylish, having panache |
| Synonyms: | chic, dashing, elegant, exclusive, fashionable, high-class, in, in vogue, mod, modish, posh, select, sharp, superior, swank, swanky, tony, uptown |
| Antonyms: | inelegant, inferior, plain, unstylish |
| Main Entry: | clean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not dirty; uncluttered |
| Synonyms: | apple-pie order, blank, bright, cleansed, clear, delicate, dirtless, elegant, faultless, flawless, fresh, graceful, hygienic, immaculate, laundered, neat, neat as a button, neat as a pin, orderly, pure, sanitary, shining, simple, snowy, sparkling, speckless, spic and span, spotless, squeaky, stainless, taintless, tidy, trim, unblemished, unpolluted, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, vanilla, washed, well-kept, white |
| Antonyms: | cluttered, dirty, filthy, foul, polluted, stained, tarnished |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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