'Inelegant' definitions:
Definition of 'inelegant'
From: WordNet
adjective
Lacking in refinement or grace or good taste [ant: elegant]
Definition of 'Inelegant'
From: GCIDE
- Inelegant \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. [1913 Webster]
- What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant. --Blair. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'inelegant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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