eleganta.[L. elegans, -antis; akin to eligere to pick out, choose, select: cf. F. lgant. See Elect.]1. Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.()A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature. (Prescott.)2. Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.()()