elegance

elegance
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Good taste
Nouns
1. elegance, refinement, ease, grace, gracefulness, polish, finish, good taste, harmonious simplicity, rhythm, harmony, symmetry. See beauty.See affectation.
2. [good] style, euphony, classicism, purism.
3. purist, classicist, stylist.
Verbs — show elegance or refinement; discriminate; round a period.
Adjectives
1. elegant, polished, classic[al], courtly, correct, artistic, chaste, pure, appropriate, refined, graceful, felicitous, in good taste, harmonious; genteel.
2. easy, fluent, flowing, mellifluous, balanced, euphonious; neatly put, well expressed.
Quotations — To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance (Jean Genet), In matters of great importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing (Oscar Wilde).
Antonyms, see vulgarity, inelegance.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [Refinement]
Syn. culture, tastefulness, taste, cultivation, polish, style, grace, delicacy, class*, tone, politeness, politesse (French), gentility, breeding, splendor, beauty, magnificence, grandeur, courtliness, hauteur, nobility, noblesse, charm, sophistication, propriety, dignity, restraint, nicety, fineness, richness, sumptuousness, luxuriousness, opulence, finery, poshness.
2. [Proportion]
Syn. symmetry, balance, rhythm, clarity, purity, felicity, grace, gracefulness, daintiness, exquisiteness, delicacy, fineness, comeliness; see also beauty 1 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
fineness, refinement, grace, opulence, luxuriousness, high style, beauty, grandeur, class, tastefulness, sophistication, poshness, polish.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun Refined, effortless beauty of manner, form, and style: elegancy, grace, polish, urbanity. See BEAUTIFUL, STYLE.

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