| slovo | definícia |
elegant
(mass) | elegant
- elegantný |
elegant
(encz) | elegant,elegantní |
elegant
(encz) | elegant,vkusný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Elegant
(gcide) | Elegant \El"e*gant\, a. [L. elegans, -antis; akin to eligere to
pick out, choose, select: cf. F. ['e]l['e]gant. See Elect.]
1. Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste;
characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the
absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and
approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from
blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly
attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of
composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.
[1913 Webster]
A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature.
--Prescott.
[1913 Webster]
2. Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or
sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
Syn: Tasteful; polished; graceful; refined; comely; handsome;
richly ornamental.
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elegant
(wn) | elegant
adj 1: 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" [ant: inelegant]
2: suggesting taste, ease, and wealth [syn: elegant,
graceful, refined]
3: displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or
execution; "an elegant dancer"; "an elegant mathematical
solution -- simple and precise" |
elegant
(foldoc) | elegant
(From Mathematics) Combining simplicity, power, and a certain
ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than "clever",
"winning" or even cuspy.
The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de
Saint-Exup'ery, probably best known for his classic children's
book "The Little Prince", was also an aircraft designer. He
gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance
when he said "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not
when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing
left to take away."
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-29)
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elegant
(jargon) | elegant
adj.
[common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a
certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than ‘clever’, ‘winning’,
or even cuspy.
The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
probably best known for his classic children's book The Little Prince, was
also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of
engineering elegance when he said “A designer knows he has achieved
perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing
left to take away.”
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| | podobné slovo | definícia |
elegant
(mass) | elegant
- elegantný |
elegantný
(msas) | elegantný
- becoming, courtly, dapper, dressy, neat, polite, posh, spruce,
stylish, swanky, courtly, dinky, distinguished, elegant, fashionable,
graceful, chic, swank |
elegantny
(msasasci) | elegantny
- becoming, courtly, dapper, dressy, neat, polite, posh, spruce,
stylish, swanky, courtly, dinky, distinguished, elegant, fashionable,
graceful, chic, swank |
elegant
(encz) | elegant,elegantní elegant,vkusný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
elegant brodiaea
(encz) | elegant brodiaea, n: |
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