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more elegant

ADJECTIVE

beautiful, tasteful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

chic classic delicate dignified exquisite fancy fashionable graceful grand handsome luxurious neat opulent ornate polished refined simple stately stylish stylized sumptuous

WEAK

affected appropriate apt aristocratic artistic august choice clever comely courtly cultivated cultured dainty effective fine genteel ingenious majestic modish nice noble ornamented ostentatious overdone rare recherché rich select stuffy superior turgid well-bred

Antonyms

STRONGEST

common dull inferior insignificant old-fashioned plain poor ugly undignified unfashionable unimpressive

WEAK

crude inelegant rough unrefined unsophisticated untasteful

Example Sentences

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It was a wonderful idea, but Hitchcock felt the execution could have been more elegant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The 34-year-old is not the most recgonised batter in this XI - that is the more elegant captain Laura Wolvaardt - but her run of form is stunning.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025

You see posters for horror movies like Eli Roth’s “Thanksgiving” as well as more elegant, perhaps unlikely gigs: Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!” and the Bale-starring “Vice,” for which the actor was transformed into Dick Cheney.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

Could I find more elegant language for this betrayal from the people who are supposed to be my neighbors?

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2024

The unsplit versions sound more elegant to me, though I can’t be sure that my ears haven’t been contaminated by a habit of cravenly unsplitting infinitives to avoid spitballs from the Gotcha!

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker