Dictionary Definition
inelegance n : the quality of lacking refinement
and good taste [ant: elegance]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The state or quality of being inelegant.
- The inelegance of the ugly duckling stood in contrast to its ultimate fate as a swan.
Synonyms
- (state or quality of being inelegant): awkwardness, bluntness, clumsiness, gracelessness, homeliness
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Babbittry, awkwardness, 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