inelegant as an adjective: - 1
inelegant
adjective
1 inelegant
Lacking in refinement or grace or good taste.
Roget 579:
inelegant,
graceless,
ungraceful;
harsh,
abrupt;
dry,
stiff,
cramped,
formal,
guinde [Fr.];
forced,
labored;
artificial,
mannered,
ponderous;
awkward,
uncourtly†,
unpolished;
turgid
etc.
577;
affected,
euphuistic†;
barbarous,
uncouth,
grotesque,
rude,
crude,
halting;
offensive to ears polite.
2.
Spoken Language
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Roget 846:
ugly,
ugly as sin,
ugly as a toad,
ugly as a scarecrow,
ugly as a dead monkey;
plain,
bald
(unadorned)
849;
homely;
ordinary,
unornamental†,
inartistic;
unsightly,
unseemly,
uncomely,
unlovely;
unshapely;
sightless,
seemless†;
not fit to be seen;
unbeauteous†,
unbeautiful;
beautiless†,
semibeautiful;
shapeless
etc.
(amorphous)
241.
misshapen,
misproportioned†;
monstrous;
gaunt
etc.
(thin)
203;
dumpy
etc.
(short)
201;
curtailed of its fair proportions;
ill-made,
ill-shaped,
ill-proportioned;
crooked
etc.
(distorted)
243;
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 [Coll.],
grody to the max [Coll.];
horrid,
horrible;
shocking
etc.
(painful)
830.
foul
etc.
(dirty)
653;
dingy
etc.
(colorless)
429;
gaudy
etc.
(color)
428;
disfigured
etc.
v.;
discolored.
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Dutch: onbevallig, onelegant
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