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noun
The state or quality of being inelegant; lack of grace, refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: elegance
Broader terms: quality
Narrower terms: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness, dowdiness, drabness, homeliness, shabbiness, seediness, manginess, sleaziness, tweediness, coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch, crudeness, roughness, boorishness, uncouthness, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation, tastelessness
History
From Middle French inélégance, from Late Latin inelegantia.
