elegantly.

1. With refined, graceful or tasteful form or presentation.

2. With economical, effective ingenuity in a solution, design or line of reasoning.

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Words that belong together

• elegantly dressed
• elegantly express

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The distinction was elegantly expressed in a short sentence.

The room was elegantly arranged with a few carefully chosen objects.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Invariable adverb; use more or most only where natural. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: style analysis, interpretation, characterization, rhetorical contrast. Disciplines: literary analysis, prose writing, advanced general English. Commonness: moderately common.