elegantly

Thân thiện

The dancer moved elegantly across the stage.

Definition

Adverb: 1. In a graceful, stylish, and tasteful manner: Describes an action performed with refined grace, sophistication, and good taste. 2. In a cleverly simple and effective manner: Describes solving a problem or executing a task with neat, efficient, and ingenious simplicity.

Usage and Examples

The adverb "elegantly" modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to describe how an action is performed or a state is achieved.

• Modifying a verb:
  • She walked elegantly into the room. (She entered the room in a graceful and poised manner.)
  • The software handles complex data elegantly. (The software manages complex data in a cleverly simple and effective way.)
• Modifying an adjective:
  • The solution was elegantly simple. (The solution was cleverly and effectively simple.)
• In comparison:
  • He writes less elegantly than his editor. (His writing style is less graceful and refined than his editor's.)

Advanced Usage

• "elegantly put": Used to compliment a well-phrased or insightful statement.
  • "That's an elegantly put argument," the professor remarked.
• "elegantly dressed": A common collocation describing someone wearing stylish, sophisticated clothing.
  • The guests were all elegantly dressed for the gala.

Variants and Related Words

• Elegant (adjective): Graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; pleasingly ingenious and simple.
  • an elegant gown, an elegant solution
• Elegance (noun): The quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; the quality of being pleasingly ingenious and simple.
  • She moved with natural elegance. The elegance of the mathematical proof was admired.

Synonyms

• Gracefully: In a smooth, controlled, and attractive way.
• Stylishly: In a fashionably elegant manner.
• Tastefully: In a manner showing good aesthetic judgment.
• Neatly: In a simple, orderly, and cleverly effective way.

Antonyms

• Clumsily: In an awkward, ungraceful manner.
• Gaudily: In a showy, tastelessly bright or ornate manner.
• Inelegantly: In a manner lacking grace, style, or refinement.

Học thuật

Adverb

1. in a gracefully elegant manner
   • the members of these groups do not express themselves as accurately or as elegantly as their critics do
2. with elegance; in a tastefully elegant manner
   • the room was elegantly decorated