- inelegance
- (New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Lack of eleganceNouns — inelegance, gracelessness, leadenness, harshness, tastelessness, vulgarity; stiffness; barbarism; solecism, cacology, circumlocution; mannerism, artificiality (see affectation); lack of polish, class, or finish.See unskillfulness.Adjectives — inelegant, graceless, ungraceful, clumsy; dowdy; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, forced, labored, leaden; artificial, mannered, ponderous, pompous; turgid, affected, euphuistic; awkward, inept, clumsy (see unskillfulness); slouching, ungainly, gawky, lumpish, lumbering, hulking, unwieldy; barbarous, barbaric, uncouth, vulgar, gross; grotesque, ludicrous; rugged, rough, gross, rude, crude, halting. Slang, klutzy, clunky.
English dictionary for students. 2013.