INELEGANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inelegant mean? 

• INELEGANT (adjective)
  The adjective INELEGANT has 1 sense:

1. lacking in refinement or grace or good taste

  Familiarity information: INELEGANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INELEGANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking in refinement or grace or good taste

Similar:

gauche; graceless; unpolished (lacking social polish)

homely (without artificial refinement or elegance)

Also:

undignified (lacking dignity)

unrefined ((used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth)

tactless; untactful (lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others)

tasteless (lacking aesthetic or social taste)

Antonym:

elegant (refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style)

Derivation:

inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)

 Context examples 

Most grateful did Elinor feel to Lady Middleton for observing, at this moment, that it rained very hard, though she believed the interruption to proceed less from any attention to her, than from her ladyship's great dislike of all such inelegant subjects of raillery as delighted her husband and mother.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)