Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an elegant manner; with elegance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a gracefully elegant manner
  • adverb with elegance; in a tastefully elegant manner

Etymologies

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elegant +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • They were white, with her name elegantly engraved on the outside, as it was on her stationery.

    Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008

  • They were white, with her name elegantly engraved on the outside, as it was on her stationery.

    Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008

  • They were white, with her name elegantly engraved on the outside, as it was on her stationery.

    Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008

  • They were white, with her name elegantly engraved on the outside, as it was on her stationery.

    Not the Girl Next Door Charlotte Chandler 2008

  • What most, who let this term elegantly drop into a discussion, like to forget is, that a hype cycle doesn't care about the usefulness of a technology, doesn't care about the acceptance, the number of users, doesn't care about the volume of business ... it only models the volume of buzz in the press.

    Second Life and the Gartner Hype Cyle - SLOG 2007

  • What most, who let this term elegantly drop into a discussion, like to forget is, that a hype cycle doesn't care about the usefulness of a technology, doesn't care about the acceptance, the number of users, doesn't care about the volume of business ... it only models the volume of buzz in the press.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • But in case your home uses plenty of glass, then a stone mantle styled elegantly is also an excellent choice.

    Elegant Wooden Towel Hanger, Milan 2010 2009

  • Knowing our views regarding the use of wine as a beverage, Mr. Wu had provided delicious tea in elegantly decorated covered china cups, and sweatmeats by way of compensation.

    With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior 1901

  • The prince, however, was mindful of me, and the next day I received from the Persian embassy the word elegantly written in Persian, with the translation, "_a pelican_."

    The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • Talmud tells us that the only language the Torah could be translated into elegantly is Greek.

    Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Kislev 19, 5770 - December 6, 2009 ] 2009

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