Synonyms for elegance
ˈɛl ɪ gənsel·e·gance

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1. elegance

   Civilization applies to nations, denoting the sum of those civil, social, economic, and political attainments by which a community is removed from barbarism; a people may be civilized while still far from refinement or culture, but civilization is susceptible of various degrees and of continued progress. Refinement applies either to nations or individuals, denoting the removal of what is coarse and rude, and a corresponding attainment of what is delicate, elegant, and beautiful. Cultivation, denoting primarily the process of cultivating the soil or growing crops, then the improved condition of either which is the result, is applied in similar sense to the human mind and character, but in this usage is now largely superseded by the term culture, which denotes a high development of the best qualities of man's mental and spiritual nature, with especial reference to the esthetic faculties and to graces of speech and manner, regarded as the expression of a refined nature. Culture in the fullest sense denotes that degree of refinement and development which results from continued cultivation through successive generations; a man's faculties may be brought to a high degree of cultivation in some specialty, while he himself remains uncultured even to the extent of coarseness and rudeness. Compare HUMANE; POLITE.

   Synonyms:
   civilization, cultivation, culture, politeness, refinement

   Antonyms:
   barbarism, boorishness, brutality, clownishness, coarseness, grossness, rudeness, rusticity, savagery, vulgarity

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1. elegance

   Synonyms:
   beauty, grace, refinement, symmetry, gracefulness, taste

   Antonyms:
   deformity, awkwardness, inelegance, disproportion, ungracefulness, coarseness, rudeness

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1. elegancenoun

   a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste

   "she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility"

   Antonyms:
   inelegance

2. elegancenoun

   a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics)

   "the simplicity and elegance of his invention"

   Antonyms:
   inelegance

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1. elegancenoun

   Synonyms:
   grace, beauty, symmetry, propriety

2. elegancenoun

   Synonyms:
   refinement, polish, politeness, gentility

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1. elegancenoun

   Synonyms:
   beauty, grace, richness, sumptuousness, luxuriousness

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1. List of paraphrases for "elegance":

   elegant, chic, style, grace, styling

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How to use elegance in a sentence?

1. Olivier Minne:

   His legacy in the industry was that he brought some kind of French elegance. That was his nature, in his way of speaking and behaving, his gestures.

2. Dorothy Gaiter:

   It's got gravitas, elegance and the perfect amount of yummy uplift that's worthy of the marvelous feat you've just accomplished.

3. Joyce Stranger:

   I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

4. William Ellery Channing:

   To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.

5. Garbine Muguruza:

   In Spain the French was the tournament but I love the history and elegance of Wimbledon.