Elegant vs Regal - What's the difference?
elegant | regal |
Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.
Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
Of or having to do with royalty.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
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, title= (obsolete, musici) A small, portable organ played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
As adjectives the difference between elegant and regal
is that elegant is characterised by or exhibiting elegance while regal is of or having to do with royalty.As a noun regal is
a small, portable organ played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.elegant
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(wikipedia elegant)Adjective
(en adjective)- an elegant solution
Synonyms
* classy * gracefulDerived terms
* eleganceregal
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Alternative forms
* regall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He made a scorn of his regal oath.
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}