Elegance

Noun

 * 1) Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners
 * The bride was elegance personified.
 * 1) Restraint and grace of style
 * The simple dress had a quiet elegance.
 * 1) The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision
 * The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance.
 * 1)  A refinement or luxury

Related terms

 * elegant

Adjectives for Elegance
tasteful; sartorial; unusual; impaired; gracious; extreme; solid; stately; sculptured; cheerless; superficial; concise; unfailing; luxurious; voluptuous; sovereign; chill; refining; quiet; palatial; simple; futile; dainty; urban; indescribable; modish; restrained; decorous; envied; dark; classic; restless; certain; bright; supercilious; inborn; airy; rustic; rich; cautious; inherent chaste; subdued; austere; correct; lazy shabby; social; verbal; defiant; peculiar pristine.

Verbs for Elegance
abandon—; arrange with—; behave with —; breed in—; demonstrate—; destroy— detest—; display—; dress with—; effect— indulge in—; instruct in—; polish with— surrender to—; treasure—; tutor in—; yield to—; —charms; —graces; —impresses; — prevails; —wins.

Thesaurus
Babylonian splendor, acquired taste, amenities, appreciation of excellence, arabesque, attractiveness, baroque, baroqueness, beauteousness, beautifulness, beauty, beauty unadorned, bloom, breeding, brilliance, charm, cheeseparing, chic, chinoiserie, choiceness, civilities, civility, civilized taste, civilizedness, clothes-consciousness, comity, convention, courtliness, coxcombry, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, daintiness, dandyism, decencies, decency, decorousness, decorum, delicacy, dignity, diplomatic code, discrimination, ease, economy, economy of assumption, economy of means, elaborateness, elegancies, etiquette, euphemism, euphuism, excellence, exquisite manners, exquisiteness, facility, fanciness, fastidiousness, fineness, finesse, flamboyance, floridity, floridness, flow, floweriness, fluency, foppery, foppishness, formalism, formalities, formality, frugality, genteelness, gentility, gentlemanlikeness, gentlemanliness, gentleness, glory, glow, good breeding, good form, good manners, good taste, goody-goodness, goody-goodyism, gorgeousness, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, handsomeness, imposingness, impressiveness, jauntiness, ladylikeness, lavishness, law of parsimony, loveliness, lushness, luxuriance, luxuriousness, luxury, magnificence, majesty, manners, modesty, mores, moresque, nattiness, natural politeness, neatness, niceness, nicety, nobility, ostentation, overelaborateness, overelegance, overniceness, overornamentation, overpreciseness, overrefinement, parsimoniousness, parsimony, pedantry, pinching, plushness, poetry, point of etiquette, polish, politeness, politesse, poshness, preciosity, preciousness, precisianism, prettiness, proprieties, propriety, protocol, proudness, pudency, pudicity, pulchritude, punctilio, purism, quality, quiet good manners, refinement, resplendence, richness, ritziness, rococo, rules of conduct, scrimping, seemliness, shame, sharpness, skimping, sleekness, smartness, smoothness, social code, social conduct, social graces, social procedures, social usage, sophistication, spiffiness, splendidness, splendiferousness, splendor, state, stateliness, stinting, style, subtlety, sumptuousness, taste, tastefulness, the beautiful, trimness

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 高雅, 優雅, 优雅
 * Finnish:, hienostuneisuus
 * French: élégance, grâce, finesse
 * German: Eleganz


 * Japanese: 優雅, 高雅, 典雅
 * Russian: элегантность, изысканность, изящество


 * Finnish:, tyylikkyys, tyyli
 * Polish: elegancja


 * Russian: элегантность, изысканность


 * Finnish:, tyylikkyys


 * Russian: элегантность


 * Finnish: ylellisyys


 * : elegantie
 * : κομψότητα (kompsótita)
 * : κομψότητα (kompsótita)
 * : κομψότητα (kompsótita)
 * : κομψότητα (kompsótita)


 * : 優雅
 * : 우아 (ua)
 * Sorani: شۆخی
 * Sorani: شۆخی
 * Sorani: شۆخی

Noun

 * 1) elegance

Related terms

 * elegantní
 * elegán