| 单词 | elegance |
| 释义 | elegance (once / 784 pages) n Elegance is a quality of style and grace. In our age of jeans and sneakers, the elegance of actresses on the red carpet on Oscar night is such a welcome sight. It comes from the Latin elegantia, "taste, propriety, or refinement." Fashion designer and eternal fashion icon Coco Chanel famously said, "Elegance is refusal," meaning it's best to skip the big jewelry and flashy clothes in favor of simple styles made from luxurious fabrics that one could wear forever — and look great every time. Elegance also describes the beautiful simplicity of a solution, such as an elegant mathematical proof. WORD FAMILYelegance: elegances+/elegant: elegance, eleganter, elegantest, elegantly, inelegant/inelegance: inelegances/inelegant: inelegance, ineleganter, inelegantly USAGE EXAMPLESElegant drawings of religious iconography adorned the margins, adding to the artifact’s elegance. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) Huppert brings her ever-present cool elegance, which she slowly peels away to reveal a devastating vulnerability, and Depardieu hasn’t been this great in years. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) Food always tastes better when served with elegance, style and imagination. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) 1n a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility Ant|Hypo|Hyper inelegance the quality of lacking refinement and good taste dash, elan, flair, panache, style distinctive and stylish elegance daintiness, delicacy, finenessthe quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance courtlinesselegance suggestive of a royal court tastefulnesselegance indicated by good taste breeding, genteelness, gentilityelegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression chic, chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swankelegance by virtue of being fashionable brilliance, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendourthe quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand eclat, pompceremonial elegance and splendor classelegance in dress or behavior dapperness, jauntiness, nattiness, rakishnessstylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance eclatbrilliant or conspicuous success or effect quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone 2n 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 Hyper quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
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