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inelegant

[ in-el-i-guhnt ]

adjective

  1. not elegant; lacking in refinement, gracefulness, or good taste.


inelegant

/ ɪnˈɛlɪɡənt /

adjective

  1. lacking in elegance or refinement; unpolished or graceless
  2. coarse or crude
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • inˈelegantly, adverb
  • inˈelegance, noun
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Other Words From

  • in·ele·gant·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of inelegant1

First recorded in 1500–10, inelegant is from the Latin word inēlegant- (stem of inēlegāns ). See in- 3, elegant
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Example Sentences

They’re opaque, with hundreds of obscure settings and features that—unless you love inelegant, browser-based interfaces—are often difficult to even access, let alone tweak.

No, she didn’t put the pieces of tape on the outside of the pants — that would have been inelegant and unstylish — she put them unobtrusively on the inside of the pants, each covering one of the two holes.

At 9, he taught inelegant programming languages like Visual Basic and COBOL to his sister — then a college sophomore.

From Ozy

Hence, McConnell’s conundrum, which manifested in this week’s brazen and inelegant shut-up-but-give stance.

From Time

That leaves us with “pandemic,” an inelegant word that’s probably hard to rhyme.

Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.

The clothes, however, were a chaotic pastiche of fur and glitter assembled in inelegant ways.

It was Callista, officer, who forced her husband to make his inelegant comments on Medicare that infuriated the conservative base.

Its components were simple, inelegant, and, by Western standards, of seemingly workmanlike craftsmanship.

Duffer is most inelegant (this from Julie in an assumption of stern reproach); I do not see wherever you picked up such a word.

This inelegant jeu de theatre is severely ridiculed in the "Rehearsal."

Did you have a recollection at the time, at least—that is an inelegant question.

The use of tre for aller when followed by an infinitive is inelegant, though the construction is sometimes used by good writers.

It is easy to read in this illustration the parable of death destroying a fruitful vine, and as a picture it is not inelegant.

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