inelegant
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Inelegant \In*el"e*gant\, a. [L. inelegans: cf. F.
in['e]l['e]gant. See {In-} not, and {Elegant}.]
Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave,
or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste
requires.
[1913 Webster]
What order so contrived as not to mix
Tastes, not well joined, inelegant. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and
inelegant. --Blair.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "inelegant":
Doric, all thumbs, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, beautiless,
blemished, blotted, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling,
bungling, butterfingered, cacophonic, cacophonous, careless,
chintzy, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, coarse, crass, crude,
cumbersome, defaced, disfigured, doggerel, dysphemistic,
dysphemized, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky,
graceless, gross, ham-fisted, ham-handed, harsh, heavy-handed,
homely, hulking, hulky, improper, impure, in bad taste,
inappropriate, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent,
indecorous, indelicate, indiscreet, infelicitous, left-hand,
left-handed, loutish, low, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit,
marred, oafish, offensive, outlandish, plain, ponderous, raw,
rough, rude, short on looks, sloppy, spoiled, stiff, tasteless,
uglified, ugly, ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unaesthetic,
unattractive, unbeautiful, unbecoming, unbeseeming, uncomely,
uncourtly, uncouth, undignified, uneuphonious, unfelicitous,
unfitting, ungainly, ungenteel, ungraceful, unhandsome, unhandy,
unlovely, unpleasing, unpolished, unpretty, unrefined, unseemly,
unsightly, unsuitable, untasteful, unwieldy, vulgar
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