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Adjectives (7)
elegant
adj. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"
elegant
adj. displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution; "an elegant dancer"; "an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise"
courtly, formal, stately
adj. refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"
refined, graceful
adj. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
Fuzzynyms (96)
pleasing, aesthetic, artistic
adj. aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement"
urbane, refined, polished, svelte, cultured
adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel
adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
debonair, debonaire, suave, polished, debonnaire
adj. having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"
glorious, magnificent, resplendent, splendid, splendiferous
adj. having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity"
urbane
adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
gilded, deluxe, luxurious, princely, opulent, sumptuous
adj. rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms"
charming
adj. pleasing or delighting; "endowed with charming manners"; "a charming little cottage"; "a charming personality"
gracious
adj. characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit; "gracious even to unexpected visitors"; "gracious living"; "he bears insult with gracious good humor"
fancy
adj. not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
mannerly, well-mannered
adj. socially correct in behavior
purple, empurpled, ornate, flowery, over-embellished
adj. excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"
satin, slick, sleek, glossy, satiny, silken, silky
adj. having a smooth, gleaming surface; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters"
lovely
adj. appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating
adj. capturing interest as if by a spell; "bewitching smile"; "Roosevelt was a captivating speaker"; "enchanting music"; "an enthralling book"; "antique papers of entrancing design"; "a fascinating woman"
disarming
adj. capable of allaying suspicion or hostility and inspiring confidence; "a disarming smile"
gallant, chivalrous, knightly
adj. being attentive to women like an ideal knight
mannered
adj. having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom"
urbane, refined, polished, svelte, cultured
adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
debonair, debonaire, suave, polished, debonnaire
adj. having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"
civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel
adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
refined
adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
neat, refined, tasteful
adj. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
gentlemanlike, gentlemanly
adj. befitting a man of good breeding; "gentlemanly behavior"
urbane, refined, polished, svelte, cultured
adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
fine, dainty, exquisite
adj. delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"
dainty, prim, mincing, niminy-piminy, twee
adj. affectedly dainty or refined
exquisite, recherche
adj. lavishly elegant and refined
graceful
adj. characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
Synonyms (31)
dignified
adj. having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance; "her dignified demeanor"; "the director of the school was a dignified white-haired gentleman"
graceful
adj. characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
refined
adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
sophisticated
adj. having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire; "sophisticated young socialites"; "a sophisticated audience"; "a sophisticated lifestyle"; "a sophisticated book"
in good taste, tasteful
adj. having or showing or conforming to good taste
deft
adj. skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind"
smooth, liquid, flowing, fluid, fluent
adj. smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"
fluent
adj. smooth and unconstrained in movement; "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"
gainly
adj. graceful and pleasing; "gainly conduct"; "a gainly youth with dark hair and eyes"
gracile, willowy
adj. slender and graceful
slender, supple, lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, svelte, sylphlike, sylph-like
adj. moving and bending with ease
distinguished, imposing, magisterial
adj. used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"
cordial
adj. sincerely or intensely felt; "a cordial regard for his visitor's comfort"; "a cordial abhorrence of waste"
merciful
adj. (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious; "our merciful king"
urbane
adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
Antonyms (14)
inelegant
adj. lacking in refinement or grace or good taste
gauche, graceless, unpolished
adj. lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"
tasteless, in poor taste
adj. lacking aesthetic or social taste
plain, simple, modest, unostentatious
adj. free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"
common, crude, vulgar, coarse
adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
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