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elegance
[el-i-guhns]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivated beauty, taste |
| Synonyms: | breeding, charm, class, courtliness, cultivation, culture, delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, exquisiteness, felicity, gentility, good taste, grace, gracefulness, grandeur, hauteur, lushness, luxury, magnificence, nicety, nobility, noblesse, ornateness, polish, politeness, poshness, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, rhythm, sophistication, splendor, style, sumptuousness, symmetry, tastefulness |
| Antonyms: | crudeness, inelegance, poor taste, roughness, ugliness |
| Concept: | Elegance. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally; various qualities of style |
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-nouns
elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness, readiness; concinnity, euphony, numerosity; Atticism, classicalism, classicism., well rounded periods, well turned periods, flowing periods; the right word in the right place; the mot juste [singular], mots justes [plural]; antithesis. purist.
-verbs
point an antithesis, round a period.
-adjectives
elegant, polished, classical, Attic, correct, Cieceronian, artistic; chaste, pure, Saxon, academical., graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping; unaffected, natural, unlabored; mellifluous; euphonious, euphemism, euphemistic; numerose, rhythmical., felicitous, happy, neat; well put, neatly put, well expressed, neatly expressed.
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| Antonyms: | inelegance |
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