Elegance, n.
- 1. Grace, beauty, symmetry, propriety.
- 2. Refinement, polish, politeness, gentility.
Elegant, a.
- 1. Graceful, beautiful, handsome, fine, symmetrical, classical, tasteful, chaste, neat, well-made, well-
proportioned, in good taste.
- 2. Polished, refined, accomplished, cultivated, polite, genteel, courtly, fashionable.
Elegiac, a. Mournful, plaintive, sorrowful, dirgelike.
Elegy, n.
- 1. Dirge, lament, epicedium, mournful song, funeral song.
- 2. Serious, meditative, or melancholy poem.
Element, n.
- 1. simple body, uncompounded body, ultimate part.
- 2. Constituent, component, ingredient, constituent principle, component part.
- 3. Proper state, proper sphere, natural medium, vital air.
- 4. [In pl.] Rudiments, first steps or principles, outlines, essential parts.
Elementary, a.
- 1. Simple, uncompounded.
- 2. Rudimentary, rudimental, primary.
Elench, n. (Log.)
- 1. Elenchus, refutatory syllogism, syllogism forcing contradiction (upon the oppenent).
- 2. (Rare.) Sophism, paralogism, fallacy, specious argument.