Synonyms for Inelegant

Synonyms for "inelegant" (147 found)

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Closest matches (30)

all thumbsawkward barbaric barbarous beautiless blemished blotted blunderheaded blundering boorish broad bumbling bungling butterfingered cacophonic cacophonous careless chintzy clownish clumsy

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clumsy-fisted

Adjective(8 words)

awkwardawkward silencesawkwarder awkwardest bloated blunt clumsier clumsy

Adjective(1 words)

bad

Strong matches (44)

Adjective(9 words)

clunkier clunkiest clunky coarse crude dumpier frowzier gauchest gawkiest

Noun(1 words)

clunking

coarse crass crude cumbersome defaced disfigured doggerel doric dysphemistic dysphemizedfingers all thumbsfumbling gauche gawkish gawky graceless gross ham-fisted ham-handed harsh

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heavy handedheavy-handed homely homespun hulking hulky improper impurein bad tasteinappropriate inconcinnate inconcinnous incorrect indecent

Related words (73)

indecorous indelicate indiscreet infelicitousleft handedleft-hand left-handed loutish low lubberly lumbering lumpish maladroit marred oafish obscene offensive outlandish plain ponderous

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Adjective(7 words)

inefficient unartistic ungainlier ungainly ungraceful unpolished unshapely

Noun(2 words)

most criminalpoor diction

Adjective(1 words)

unfashionable

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

7 relation types

More general

6 entries

aesthetic descriptorcommunication descriptordesign qualitylinguistic descriptormathematical descriptortechnical descriptor

More specific

6 entries

awkward designblunt critiquecrude phrasinginefficient algorithminelegant proofungraceful form

Collocations

5 entries

inelegant designinelegant gestureinelegant manuscriptinelegant phrasinginelegant solution

Inflections

2 entries

more inelegantmost inelegant

Derivations

2 entries

inelegance inelegantly

Antonyms

1 entries

elegant

similar

9 entries

gauche graceless homely tactless tasteless undignified unpolished unrefined untactful

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Was my sentence incorrect? Or inelegant? Or both? Or neither one nor the other?

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The slang is a metonymic but inelegant phrase.

Source: tatoeba (10649955)

There was still time amid the drama for Ashley Cole to almost mark his 97th cap with a goal but the erratic Pyatov made a fine recovery save after another inelegant attempt to deal with a cross.

Source: wiktionary

Inelegant