Elegantly

adv

adv ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.

    "Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a gracefully elegant manner wordnet
  2. 2
    with elegance; in a tastefully elegant manner wordnet

Synonyms

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decentlyexquisitelyextravagantlygracefullygrandlyhandsomely

Example

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"She smoothly and elegantly poured the water into the glass."

Etymology

From elegant + -ly.

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