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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

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more elegant

By the 1990s, with his investments in more elegant buildings downtown, he was playing golf with Trump, and their families hung out together.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

On the first floor, the front parlor, with its wooden wainscoting and classical door frames, is more elegant after conservation restored small details in the decorative moldings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 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

Writing is often clearer and more elegant when a writer pushes an only or a not next to the thing that it quantifies.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker