Inelegant

Definition: Inelegant

Inelegant

Adjective

1. Lacking in refinement or grace or good taste.

Date "inelegant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

Synonym: Inelegant

Synonym: uncouth. (additional references)

Antonym: elegant (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inelegance	Verb: be inelegant; Adjective:
	Adjective: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly, unpolished; turgid; affected, euphuistic; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite.
Ugliness	Graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish; lumbering; hulky, hulking; unwieldy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Inelegant

English words defined with "inelegant": awkwardness ♦ clumsiness ♦ gawkiness ♦ Inelegancy ♦ Rustic work ♦ Unelegant, ungainliness. (references)

Specialty definitions using "inelegant": Ain't, As... as, At you ♦ bag on the side ♦ Don't want none ♦ Got to ♦ Lead a dance ♦ Mighty. (references)

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	Rude; disgusting; vulgar; crude; burp; awkward; backward; barnyard; boorish; cheap; cloddish; clumsy; coarse; crass; dirty; earthy; filthy; foul; grody; gross; ignorant; ill-bred; indecent; indelicate; inelegant; insensible; lewd; loud; loud-mouthed; lout.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Inelegant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inelegant" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	35	58,339

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Language		Translations for "inelegant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pashije (dowdy, drab, flavorless, flavourless, frumpish, gaudy, insipid, mawkish, rococo, savorless, savourless), i pakripur (insipid, unsalted). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير مصقول (clumsiness, clumsy, coarse, robust, unfinished, unpolished, unvarnished), ‏غير أنيق (poky, unattractive), ‏غير رقيق. (various references)

Bulgarian		грубоват (hairy, outlandish, robust, round), грапав (coarse, irregular, jagged, ragged, rough, rugged, uneven), неелегантен, неизящен (inurbane, ungainly, ungraceful), без чар, без вкус. (various references)

Czech		neelegantní (dowdy). (various references)

Farsi		ناهنجار (Abnormal, Backhand, Dissonant, Gruff, Lumpy, Maladroit, Malformed, Nefarious, Raucous, Rough, Surly, Timber, Uncouth, Unkempt), نازیبا (Unbecoming, Ungraceful, Unhandsome, Unseemly, Unworthy). (various references)

French		inélégant, sans élégance, peu élégant. (various references)

German		unelegant (graceless, inelegantly, undignified, unfashionable, ungainly). (various references)

Greek		άκομψοσ (frampy, gauche, Hull, slob, slouch, sloughy, ungainly), άχαρισ (clumsy, graceless, ill-favored, ill-favoured, uncomely, ungraceful, unlovely), ακαλαίσθητοσ, αντιαισθητικόσ. (various references)

Hebrew		לא אל�'� טי, חסר חן (graceless). (various references)

Hungarian		nem elegáns (tacky). (various references)

Italian		inelegante. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		無粋 (boorish, lacking in polish, no sense of refinement, unromantic), 不粋 (boorish, lacking in polish, no sense of refinement, unromantic). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぶすい (boorish, lacking in polish, no sense of refinement, unromantic). (various references)

Manx		neuyesh (clumsy, improper, inapplicable, incongruous, incorrect, unbecoming, undesirable), neuchummeydagh (formless, incapable, incompetent, shapeless). (various references)

Pig Latin		inelegantay

Portuguese		deselegante (crude, dowdyish, graceless, ill-favored, ill-favoured, shapeless, uncomely, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandsome), deselegância. (various references)

Russian		неэлегантный (dowdyish), неизящный (inurbane, ungraceful). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neelegantan (ungraceful). (various references)

Spanish		poco elegante (tatty). (various references)

Swedish		utan elegans, klumpig (awkward, awkwardly shaped, awkward-to-handle, cloddish, Cloggy, clownish, clumsy, cumbersome, doughy, elephantine, flatfooted, gauche, heavy-handed, hulking, inept, left handed, lumpish, pasty, uncouth, ungainly, unwieldy, wooden), grov (bearish, big, boeotian, coarse, coarse grained, crass, crude, earthy, fulsome, gross, heavy, large, rank, raw, rough, rough spoken, rude, thick, unmachined). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งไม่ง�"งาม. (various references)

Turkish		incelikten yoksun (incondite), terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), çirkin (beastly, eldritch, flagrant, foul, god-awful, heinous, hideous, homely, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, misshapen, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, plain, seamy, shapeless, ugly, unattractive, uncomely, uncouth, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Ukranian		грубуватий (bluffy, blunt, clownish, gauche, gruff, rough and ready), неелегантний (dowdyish, ungracious). (various references)

Vietnamese		thiếu trang nhã. (various references)

Welsh		annillyn (clumsy, ugly, unseemly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "inelegant": inelegantly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Inelegant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: intelegent, Neligan. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "inelegant" (pronounced 'In*el"e*gant'): Adragant, Arrogant, Collitigant, Corrugant, Derogant, elegant, fumigant, Mitigant, Mundivagant, Noctivagant, Omnivagant, Overelegant, Saxifragant, Solivagant, Suffragant, Supererogant, Tergant, Unelegant. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: eglantine.
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-n-n-t"
	-1 letter: antigene, entangle, galenite, gantline, gelatine, latening, legatine.
	-2 letters: aneling, anteing, antigen, atingle, eanling, egalite, elating, elegant, gelatin, genital, gentian, gentile, leaning, lenient, lineage, lineate.
	-3 letters: aiglet, anting, eaglet, eating, elegit, engine, entail, gannet, gelant, gelate, gelati, genial, gentil, gentle, ingate, innate, lateen, legate, lenten, ligate, linage, linnet, neaten, negate, tangle, teeing, telega, tenail.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-n-n-t"
	+1 letter: eglantines.
	+2 letters: delineating, disentangle, enucleating, geanticline, inelegantly, langbeinite, realignment.
	+3 letters: disentangled, disentangles, entreatingly, eternalizing, geanticlines, generational, hearteningly, interleaving, langbeinites, palingenetic, realignments, tangibleness, unnegotiable.
	+4 letters: cantilevering, credentialing, demyelinating, externalising, externalizing, gentlemanlike, interlayering, interpleading, interregional, interrelating, lastingnesses, neonatologies, noncollegiate, nonnegotiable, outgeneraling, penetratingly, threateningly.
	+5 letters: antiallergenic, concelebrating, congenialities, credentialling, decentralizing, encephalitogen, entertainingly, essentializing, evangelization, gelatinousness, generalisation, generalization, generationally, heartrendingly, intangibleness, intelligential, intelligentsia, interpellating, intersegmental, nongeometrical, tangiblenesses.
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