cute

1. (especially mathematics) Evincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).Examples: "There's a cute alternative proof of this using lambda calculus."; "Cute solution to pin one Knight by unpinning the other and so force discovered guard for the Bishop: it took me hours to find that Bishop key."; "We state a cute result that can be derived from our calcuations^([sic]). It is not applied anywhere later, but shows that graphs with heavy tails and large clustering coefficients have large cores."especially