elegant

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style
  2. adjective suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
  3. adjective displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution

Etymology

From Late Middle English elegaunt, from Middle French elegant, ultimately from Latin ēlegāns, collateral form of present participle of ēligere, from ex- (“out of, from”) + legō (“choose, select, appoint”).

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