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Elegant vs Modish - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between elegant and modish

is that elegant is characterised by or exhibiting elegance while modish is conforming with fashion or style.

elegant

English

(wikipedia elegant)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.
  • Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
    • an elegant solution

    Synonyms

    * classy * graceful

    Derived terms

    * elegance

    modish

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Conforming with fashion or style.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}
  • In the mode.

    • Derived terms

    * modishly * modishness