English > inelegance: 1 sense > noun 1, attribute| Meaning | The quality of lacking refinement and good taste. |
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| Narrower | awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness | The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment / embarrassment) |
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| boorishness, uncouthness | inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor |
| coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch | The quality of lacking taste and refinement |
| crudeness, roughness | An unpolished unrefined quality |
| dowdiness, drabness, homeliness | Having a drab or dowdy quality |
| ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation | lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity |
| shabbiness, seediness, manginess, sleaziness | A lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing |
| tastelessness | inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste |
| tweediness | An informal, homely, outdoor look characteristic of those who wear tweeds |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
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| Opposite | elegance | A refined quality of gracefulness and good taste |
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| Spanish | deslucimiento, inelegancia |
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| Catalan | deslluïment, inelegància |
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| Adjectives | inelegant | lacking in refinement or grace or good taste |
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