inelegance

Other forms: inelegances

Definitions of inelegance

1. noun

   the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
   antonyms:

   elegance

   a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste

   types:

   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

   woodenness

   the quality of being wooden and awkward

   gaucherie, rusticity

   the quality of being rustic or gauche

   raggedness

   shabbiness by virtue of being in rags

   cheapness, sleaze, tackiness, tat

   tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar

   brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness

   tasteless showiness

   type of:

   quality

   an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone