Usually means: Lacking grace, refinement, or polish.
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  1. inelegant: Merriam-Webster
  2. inelegant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inelegant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inelegant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inelegant: Vocabulary.com
  6. inelegant: Wordnik
  7. inelegant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inelegant: Wiktionary
  9. inelegant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inelegant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inelegant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Inelegant, inelegant: Dictionary.com
  13. inelegant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Inelegant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. inelegant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. inelegant: Rhymezone
  17. Inelegant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. inelegant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. inelegant: FreeDictionary.org
  20. inelegant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. inelegant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. inelegant: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. inelegant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. inelegant: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Not elegant; not exhibiting neatness, refinement, or precision.

Similar:
graceless, unpolished, gauche, homely, unelegant, unbeautiful, ungraceful, unneatened, unneat, ungenteel, more...

Opposite:
elegant, refined, graceful, sophisticated, polished

Types:
clumsy, awkward, graceless, ungainly, ungentlemanly, unpolished, more...

Phrases:
insulting or inelegant, more...

Adjectives:
little, whole, latter, best, general

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Similar:
graceless, unpolished, gauche, homely, unelegant, unbeautiful, ungraceful, unneatened, unneat, ungenteel, more...

Opposite:
elegant, refined, graceful, sophisticated, polished

Types:
clumsy, awkward, graceless, ungainly, ungentlemanly, unpolished, more...

Phrases:
insulting or inelegant, more...

Adjectives:
little, whole, latter, best, general



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