Usually means: Graceful and refined in appearance.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word elegant:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. elegant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. elegant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elegant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elegant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elegant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elegant, elegant: Wordnik
  7. elegant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. elegant: Wiktionary
  9. elegant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. elegant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. elegant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Elegant, elegant: Dictionary.com
  13. elegant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. elegant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Elegant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Elegant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. elegant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. elegant: Rhymezone
  19. elegant, elegant, elegant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. elegant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. elegant: Free Dictionary
  22. elegant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. elegant: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elegant: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. elegant: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. elegant: CCI Computer
  3. elegant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elegant: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. elegant, elegant: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Elegant: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. elegant: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See elegantly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.
adjective:  Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
adjective:  (Ireland, colloquial, archaic) Fine; doing well.
noun:  An elegant parrot.

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