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Definition of Inelegance
1. Noun. The quality of lacking refinement and good taste.
Specialized synonyms: Awkwardness, Clumsiness, Gracelessness, Stiffness, Dowdiness, Drabness, Homeliness, Manginess, Seediness, Shabbiness, Sleaziness, Tweediness, Coarseness, Commonness, Grossness, Raunch, Vulgarism, Vulgarity, Crudeness, Roughness, Boorishness, Uncouthness, Inflation, Ostentation, Ostentatiousness, Pomposity, Pompousness, Pretentiousness, Puffiness, Splashiness, Tastelessness
Antonyms: Elegance
Derivative terms: Inelegant
Definition of Inelegance
1. n. The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace; want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners.
Definition of Inelegance
1. Noun. The state or quality of being inelegant; lack of grace, refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inelegance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inelegance
Literary usage of Inelegance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: With a Selection from Her by Fanny Burney (1889)
"... not with " poor language," or "inelegance" of diction. "I have no doubt," says
Maria, *' of your letters being so very much above our comprehension, ..."
2. England and the English by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1836)
"inelegance of Conversation.—With us the Court does not cultivate the Graces of
Language.—Samples of Dialogue,—Literary Men; their want of a fixed position ..."
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