What does elegance mean?
Elegance means Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners..
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/ˈɛl.ɪ.ɡəns/ · noun
Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners..
The bride was elegance personified.
The simple dress had a quiet elegance.
The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance.
As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good.
At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances.
Phineas Duge[…] was, for a man of affairs and an American, singularly fond of the small elegances of life. Although he sat alone at dinner, the table was heaped with choice flowers and carefully selected hothouse fruit.
Use elegance when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Elegance means Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include inelegance.
The bride was elegance personified.
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