Bold vs. Elegant — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bold and Elegant
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Bold
Fearless and daring; courageous
A bold leader.
Elegant
Characterized by or exhibiting refined, tasteful beauty of manner, form, or style.
Bold
Requiring or exhibiting courage or daring
A bold voyage to unknown lands.
Elegant
Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.
Bold
Unduly forward and brazen; impudent
A bold, sassy child.
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Elegant
Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
An elegant solution
Bold
Strikingly different or unconventional; arresting or provocative
"[He] laid out a bold, new vision for America's leading universities" (Jerome Karabel).
Elegant
Fine; doing well.
Bold
Clear and distinct to the eye; conspicuous
Bold colors.
A bold pattern.
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.
Bold
Strong or pronounced; prominent
The bold flavor of ginger.
Elegant
Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
Bold
Steep or abrupt in grade or terrain
"The two walk along the high, bold, rocky shore" (Harriet Beecher Stowe).
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
Bold
(Printing) Boldface.
Elegant
Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
Bold
(obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
Elegant
Of seemingly effortless beauty in form or proportion
Bold
Courageous, daring.
Bold deeds win admiration and, sometimes, medals.
Elegant
Refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court;
A courtly gentleman
Bold
Visually striking; conspicuous.
The painter's bold use of colour and outline
Bold
Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
The last word of this sentence is bold.
Bold
Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
Bold
(Ireland) Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.
All of her children are terribly bold and never do as they are told.
Bold
Full-bodied.
Bold
(Philippines) Pornographic; depicting nudity.
Bold
Steep or abrupt.
Bold
(transitive) To make (a font or some text) bold.
Bold
To make bold or daring.
Bold
To become bold or brave.
Bold
Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.
Throngs of knights and barons bold.
Bold
Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous.
Bold
In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.
Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice.
Bold
Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in composition or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold.
The cathedral church is a very bold work.
Bold
Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief.
Shadows in painting . . . make the figure bolder.
Bold
Steep; abrupt; prominent.
Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears.
Bold
To make bold or daring.
Bold
To be or become bold.
Bold
A typeface with thick heavy lines
Bold
Fearless and daring;
Bold settlers on some foreign shore
A bold speech
A bold adventure
Bold
Clear and distinct;
Bold handwriting
A figure carved in bold relief
A bold design
Bold
Very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front;
A bluff headland
Where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise
A sheer descent of rock
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