elegant

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See also: Elegant, élégant, and êlégant

English

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Etymology

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From Late Middle English elegaunt, from Middle French elegant, ultimately from Latin ēlegāns.

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Adjective

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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[1], 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.'

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Noun

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elegant (plural elegants)

  1. An elegant parrot.
    • 1895, The Avicultural Magazine, Volume 1, The Avicultural Society for the Study of Foreign and British Birds, page 22:
      But if the Aviarist be ambitious to keep the lovely, but destructive, members of the Parrot family, he must be content with grass alone, because Parrakeets (except the weak-billed Turquoisines and Elegants) would destroy the shrubs and trees in a day.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin ēlegantem.

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Adjective

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elegant m or f (masculine and feminine plural elegants)

  1. elegant
    Antonym: inelegant

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Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French élégant, from Latin ēlegāns.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /eləɡant/, [eləˈɡ̊anˀd̥]

Adjective

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elegant

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

Inflection

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Inflection of elegant
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte common singular elegant elegantere elegantest2
Indefinite neuter singular elegant elegantere elegantest2
Plural elegante elegantere elegantest2
Definite attributive1 elegante elegantere eleganteste
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French elegant.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌeːləˈɣɑnt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ele‧gant
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt

Adjective

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elegant (comparative eleganter, superlative elegantst)

  1. elegant

Declension

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Declension of elegant
uninflected elegant
inflected elegante
comparative eleganter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial elegant eleganter het elegantst
het elegantste
indefinite m./f. sing. elegante elegantere elegantste
n. sing. elegant eleganter elegantste
plural elegante elegantere elegantste
definite elegante elegantere elegantste
partitive elegants eleganters

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German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French elegant.

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elegant (strong nominative masculine singular eleganter, comparative eleganter, superlative am elegantesten)

  1. elegant

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Further reading

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  • elegant” in Duden online
  • elegant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Latin

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Verb

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ēlēgant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of ēlēgō

Middle French

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Adjective

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

  1. elegant

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin elegans, via French élégant.

Adjective

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

  1. elegant
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin elegans, via French élégant.

Adjective

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

  1. elegant
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Polish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French élégant, from Latin ēlegāns.

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Noun

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elegant m pers (female equivalent elegantka, diminutive elegancik)

  1. elegant man

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Further reading

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  • elegant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • elegant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French élégant, from Latin elegans.

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elegant m or n (feminine singular elegantă, masculine plural eleganți, feminine and neuter plural elegante)

  1. tasteful

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Latin elegans, via French élégant.

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Adjective

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elegant (comparative elegantare, superlative elegantast)

  1. elegant

Declension

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Inflection of elegant
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular elegant elegantare elegantast
Neuter singular elegantt elegantare elegantast
Plural eleganta elegantare elegantast
Masculine plural3 elegante elegantare elegantast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 elegante elegantare elegantaste
All eleganta elegantare elegantaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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Noun

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elegant c

  1. an elegance (person who is (doing something) elegant)

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Often a bit tongue-in-cheek.

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