Inelegance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inelegance \In*el"e*gance\, Inelegancy \In*el"e*gan*cy\, n.; pl.
     {Inelegances}, {Inelegancies}. [L. inelegantia: cf. F.
     in['e]l['e]gance.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. The quality of being inelegant; lack of elegance or grace;
        lack of refinement, beauty, or polish in language,


        composition, or manners.
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              The notorious inelegance of her figure. --T. Hook.
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     2. Anything inelegant; as, inelegance of style in literary
        composition.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inelegance
       n : the quality of lacking refinement and good taste [ant: {elegance}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "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