Meaning of INELEGANCE
| Pronunciation: | | in'eluguns
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| | Definition: | | [n] the quality of lacking refinement and good taste |
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| | Antonyms: | | elegance | | |
| | See Also: | | awkwardness, boorishness, clumsiness, coarseness, commonness, crudeness, dowdiness, drabness, gracelessness, grossness, homeliness, inflation, manginess, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, quality, roughness, seediness, shabbiness, splashiness, stiffness, tastelessness, uncouthness, vulgarism, vulgarity | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*el"e*gance\, Inelegancy \In*el"e*gan*cy\, n.; pl.
{Inelegances}, {Inelegancies}. [L. inelegantia: cf. F.
in['e]l['e]gance.]
1. The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace;
want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language,
composition, or manners.
The notorious inelegance of her figure. --T. Hook.
2. Anything inelegant; as, inelegance of style in literary
composition.
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| | Related Terms: | | awkwardness, Babbittry, bad taste, boorishness, bourgeois taste, bumblingness, cacophony, camp, campiness, clownishness, clumsiness, cumbersomeness, defacement, disfigurement, dysphemism, gawkiness, gawkishness, gracelessness, ham-handedness, handful of thumbs, heavy-handedness, high camp, homeliness, hulkiness, ill-favoredness, impropriety, inappropriateness, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inelegancy, kitsch, left-handedness, loutishness, low camp, lubberliness, lumpishness, maladroitness, oafishness, philistinism, plainness, ponderousness, poor taste, pop, pop culture, shapelessness, tastelessness, uglification, uglifying, ugliness, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unattractiveness, unbeautifulness, unbecomingness, unchastity, uncomeliness, uncouthness, unfittingness, ungainliness, ungracefulness, unhandiness, unhandsomeness, unloveliness, unmanageability, unmeetness, unpleasingness, unprettiness, unseemliness, unshapeliness, unsightliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unwieldiness, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness |
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