Meaning of INELEGANT
| Pronunciation: | | in'elugunt
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[adj] lacking in refinement or grace or good taste |
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INELEGANT is a 9 letter word that starts with I. |
| | Synonyms: | | gauche, graceless, homely, unpolished |
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| | Antonyms: | | elegant | | |
| | See Also: | | in poor taste(p), tactless, tasteless, undignified, unrefined, untactful | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*el"e*gant\, a. [L. inelegans: cf. F.
in['e]l['e]gant. See {In-} not, and {Elegant}.]
Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave,
or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste
requires.
What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well
joined, inelegant. --Milton.
It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and
inelegant. --Blair.
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| | Related Terms: | | all thumbs, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, beautiless, blemished, blotted, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, cacophonic, cacophonous, careless, chintzy, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, coarse, crass, crude, cumbersome, defaced, disfigured, doggerel, Doric, dysphemistic, dysphemized, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, gross, ham-fisted, ham-handed, harsh, heavy-handed, homely, hulking, hulky, improper, impure, in bad taste, inappropriate, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, indiscreet, infelicitous, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, low, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, marred, oafish, offensive, outlandish, plain, ponderous, raw, rough, rude, short on looks, sloppy, spoiled, stiff, tasteless, uglified, ugly, ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful, unbecoming, unbeseeming, uncomely, uncourtly, uncouth, undignified, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, unfitting, ungainly, ungenteel, ungraceful, unhandsome, unhandy, unlovely, unpleasing, unpolished, unpretty, unrefined, unseemly, unsightly, unsuitable, untasteful, unwieldy, vulgar |
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