elegance

Roget category 578

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#578. Elegance

noun

elegance, purity, grace, ease — gracefulness, readiness etc. adj. — concinnity^†, euphony, numerosity^† — Atticism^†, classicalism^†, classicism.
well rounded periods, well turned periods, flowing periods — the right word in the right place — antithesis etc. 577.
purist [Slang].

verb

point an antithesis, round a period.

adjective

elegant, polished, classical, Attic, correct, Ciceronian, artistic — chaste, pure, Saxon, academical^†.
graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping — unaffected, natural, unlabored^† — mellifluous — euphonious, euphemism, euphemistic — numerose^†, rhythmical.
felicitous, happy, neat — well put, neatly put, well expressed, neatly expressed

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