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Elegant vs. Stylish — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Elegant and Stylish

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Elegant

Characterized by or exhibiting refined, tasteful beauty of manner, form, or style.

Stylish

Stylish is a user style manager that can change the appearance of web pages in a user's browser without changing their content by including user-supplied CSS style sheets with those supplied by the web site itself. The Stylish browser extension includes tools with which to write user styles, and can install user styles written by other Stylish users from a companion website.

Elegant

Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.

Stylish

Conforming to the current fashion; modish.

Elegant

Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
An elegant solution
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Stylish

Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress.

Elegant

Fine; doing well.

Stylish

(film) Having a particular directing style or cinematography.

Elegant

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.

Stylish

Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner.
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Elegant

Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.

Stylish

Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress;
A little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey
The stylish resort of Gstadd

Elegant

Refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style;
Elegant handwriting
An elegant dark suit
She was elegant to her fingertips
Small churches with elegant white spires
An elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid

Stylish

Being or in accordance with current fashion;
Fashionable clothing
The fashionable side of town
A fashionable cafe

Elegant

Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

Elegant

Of seemingly effortless beauty in form or proportion

Elegant

Refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court;
A courtly gentleman

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