Word Meanings - ELEGANTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.

Related words: (words related to ELEGANTLY)

• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• TASTE
  by the touch, to try, to taste, LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare 1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. Chapman. Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find. Chaucer. 2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• TASTER
  One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora. (more info) 1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food
• TASTELESS
  1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit. 2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. Orrery. 3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery. -- Taste"less*ly,
• PLEASED
  Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ed*ness, n.
• PLEASEMAN
  An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. Shak.
• ELEGANCE; ELEGANCY
  1. The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style,
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• SYMMETRY
  The law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity in form and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical. Note: Bilateral symmetry, or
• PLEASE
  1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. I pray to God that it may plesen you. Chaucer. What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. Milton. 2. To have or take
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• TASTEFUL
  1. Having a high relish; savory. "Tasteful herbs." Pope. 2. Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste; tasty; as, a tasteful drapery. -- Taste"ful*ly, adv. -- Taste"ful*ness, n.
• RICHLY
  In a rich manner.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• ASYMMETRY
  Incommensurability. Barrow. (more info) 1. Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERPLEASE
  To please excessively.
• ATTASTE
  To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer.
• DISSYMMETRY
  Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.
• PSEUDO-SYMMETRY
  A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.
• DISTASTEFUL
  1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. 2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton. 3. Manifesting distaste or
• FORETASTE
  A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
• ALETASTER
  See ALECONNER
• TIMEPLEASER
  One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak.
• CATASTERISM
  A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. Whewell.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• MEN-PLEASER
  One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6.
• AFTERTASTE
  A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking.
• POETASTER
  An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art. The talk of forgotten poetasters. Macaulay.