Elegant vs. Posh — What's the Difference?

Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.

Typical of the upper class, especially in the United Kingdom

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

Fashionable or luxurious

Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.

Affectedly imitating characteristics of the upper class; pretentious

Fine; doing well.

Associated with the upper classes.

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.

Stylish, elegant, exclusive (expensive).

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

Snobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that one is better than everyone else.

Refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style;

An exclamation expressing derision.

Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

Fragments produced by an impact

Of seemingly effortless beauty in form or proportion

Slush

Refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court;

(normally in the phrasal verb posh up) To make posh, or posher.

Elegant and fashionable;