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INELEGANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of lacking refinement and good taste
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("inelegance" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inelegance"):
awkwardness; clumsiness; gracelessness; stiffness (the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment))
dowdiness; drabness; homeliness (having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance)
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)
coarseness; commonness; grossness; raunch; vulgarism; vulgarity (the quality of lacking taste and refinement)
crudeness; roughness (an unpolished unrefined quality)
boorishness; uncouthness (inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor)
inflation; ostentation; ostentatiousness; pomposity; pompousness; pretentiousness; puffiness; splashiness (lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity)
tastelessness (inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste)
Antonym:
elegance (a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste)
Derivation:
inelegant (lacking in refinement or grace or good taste)
