inelegance
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in·el·e·gance
(ĭn-ĕl′ĭ-gəns)n.
Lack of refinement or polish.
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in•el•e•gance
(ɪnˈɛl ɪ gəns)n.
1. the quality or state of being inelegant; lack of elegance.
2. something that is inelegant.
[1720–30]
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Noun | 1. | inelegance - the quality of lacking refinement and good taste quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare gracelessness, clumsiness, awkwardness, stiffness - the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) manginess, seediness, shabbiness, sleaziness - a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing tweediness - an informal, homely, outdoor look characteristic of those who wear tweeds crudeness, roughness - an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her" uncouthness, boorishness - inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness, ostentation, puffiness, inflation - lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity tastelessness - inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste elegance - a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste; "she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility" |
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Translations
عَدَم أناقَه أو لَباقَه
nedostatek elegance
smagløsheduelegance
elegancia: az elegancia hiánya
skortur á glæsibrag; smekkleysi
nevkus
inelegance
n → Uneleganz f; (of clothes, person also) → Mangel m → an Schick or Eleganz; (of style also) → Schwerfälligkeit f, → Unausgewogenheit f; (of prose, phrase also) → Ungeschliffenheit f, → Plumpheit f, → Schwerfälligkeit f; (of dialect) → Derbheit f, → Schwerfälligkeit f
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inelegant
(inˈeligənt) adjective not graceful; not elegant. She was sprawled in a chair in a most inelegant fashion.
inˈelegantly adverbinˈelegance noun
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