inelegant

Adjective

Meaning

Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

clumsy graceless dowdy elephantine ungainly gaudy passe tawdry wooden rough gross crude inefficient stiff coarse
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Antonyms

elegant foxy carina grand swish dapper
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Phrases with the word

inelegant person

Anagrams

eglantine legantine elegantin Galentine

Examples

An inelegant program for Euclid's algorithm "Inelegant" is a translation of Knuth's version of the algorithm with a subtraction-based remainder-loop replacing his use of division (or a "modulus" instruction). Source: Internet

Computer science In modern computing terminology, a kludge (or often a "hack") is a solution to a problem, doing a task, or fixing a system that is inefficient, inelegant or even unfathomable, but which nevertheless (more or less) works. Source: Internet

In in 1987, David Hepworth claimed: "Marillion may represent the inelegant, unglamorous, public bar end of the current Rock Renaissance but they are no less part of it for that. Source: Internet

Fetch does have the occasional crowded page and inelegant transition, which can make for a bumpy read. Source: Internet

It’s involuntary and inelegant, like sneezing. Source: Internet

A: We can’t see anything grammatically wrong here, just an inelegant pileup of unnecessary words. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

inelative case inelegance inelegancy inelegant person inelegantly inelidable