inelegance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=el=e=gance

CIDE DICTIONARY

inelegance, n. [L. inelegantia: cf. F. inélégance.].

•  The quality of being inelegant; lack of elegance or grace; lack of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners.  [1913 Webster]

  "The notorious inelegance of her figure."  [1913 Webster]
•  Anything inelegant; as, inelegance of style in literary composition.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

inelegance

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

ROGET THESAURUS

inelegance

Inelegance

N inelegance, stiffness, unlettered Muse, barbarism, slang, solecism, mannerism, euphuism, fustian, cacophony, words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw, marinism, inelegant, graceless, ungraceful, harsh, abrupt, dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde, forced, labored, artificial, mannered, ponderous, awkward, uncourtly, unpolished, turgid, affected, euphuistic, barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting, offensive to ears polite, Spoken Language.

Ugliness

N ugliness, deformity, inelegance, acomia, disfigurement, want of symmetry, inconcinnity, distortion, squalor, forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, spretae injuria formae, eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright, monster, dog, woofer, pig, octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen adempt, ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey, plain, bald (unadorned), homely, ordinary, unornamental, inartistic, unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely, unshapely, sightless, seemless, not fit to be seen, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, beautiless, semibeautiful, shapeless, misshapen, misproportioned, monstrous, gaunt, dumpy, curtailed of its fair proportions, ill-made, ill- shaped, ill-proportioned, crooked, hard featured, hard visaged, ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored, ill-looking, unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing, graceless, inelegant, ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff, rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety, gawky, lumping, lumpish, lumbering, hulky, hulking, unwieldy, squalid, haggard, grim, grim faced, grim visaged, grisly, ghastly, ghost like, death like, cadaverous, grewsome, gruesome, frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding, repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre, grody, grody to the max, horrid, horrible, shocking, foul, dingy, gaudy, disfigured, discolored.