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I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
Patrick Marber

Meaning of "inelegant" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INELEGANT

inelegant  [ɪnˈɛlɪɡənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INELEGANT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inelegant is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INELEGANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of inelegant in the English dictionary

The definition of inelegant in the dictionary is lacking in elegance or refinement; unpolished or graceless. Other definition of inelegant is coarse or crude.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INELEGANT


arrogant
ˈærəɡənt
congregant
ˈkɒŋɡrɪɡənt
conjugant
ˈkɒndʒʊɡənt
elegant
ˈɛlɪɡənt
extravagant
ɪkˈstrævəɡənt
fumigant
ˈfjuːmɪɡənt
interrogant
ɪnˈtɛrəɡənt
intrigant
ˈɪntrɪɡənt
intriguant
ˈɪntrɪɡənt
litigant
ˈlɪtɪɡənt
mitigant
ˈmɪtɪɡənt
noctivagant
nɒkˈtɪvəɡənt
obligant
ˈɒblɪɡənt
overextravagant
ˌəʊvərɪkˈstrævəɡənt
segregant
ˈsɛɡrɪɡənt
solivagant
səʊˈlɪvəɡənt
supererogant
ˌsuːpərˈerəʊɡənt
taggant
ˈtæɡənt
termagant
ˈtɜːməɡənt
unarrogant
ʌnˈærəɡənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INELEGANT

inelaborate
inelaborately
inelastic
inelastically
inelasticity
inelegance
inelegancy
inelegantly
ineligibility
ineligible
ineligibleness
ineligibly
ineloquence
ineloquent
ineloquently
ineluctability
ineluctable
ineluctably
ineludible
ineludibly

WORDS THAT END LIKE INELEGANT

assistant
cant
constant
consultant
enfant
gant
giant
grant
important
infant
instant
irrelevant
meant
on the instant
pendant
plant
relevant
restaurant
significant
want

Synonyms and antonyms of inelegant in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INELEGANT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «inelegant» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of inelegant

Translation of «inelegant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INELEGANT

Find out the translation of inelegant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inelegant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inelegant» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不雅
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

poco elegante
570 millions of speakers

English

inelegant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

असजीला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ائقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безвкусный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

deselegante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অসুন্দর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inélégant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Inelegant
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unelegant
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

洗練されてない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우아
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inelegant
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không thanh nha
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அழகில்லாத
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निष्क्रीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

incelikten yoksun
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inelegante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieeleganckie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

несмачний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inelegant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άκομψο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onelegant
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inelegant
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uelegant
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inelegant

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INELEGANT»

The term «inelegant» is regularly used and occupies the 56.048 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INELEGANT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inelegant

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QUOTES WITH «INELEGANT»

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Patrick Marber
I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INELEGANT»

Discover the use of inelegant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inelegant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Counseling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents: ...
Philosophical. or. Elegant. Solutions. versus. Inelegant. Solutions. Practitioners of REBT believe that therapists will best achieve emotional solutions by changing clients' core irrational beliefs instead of changing clients' perceptions or ...
H. Thompson Prout, Douglas T. Brown, 2012
2
Numerical Methods in Finance
Fast,. Accurate. and. Inelegant. Valuation. of. American. Options. Adriaan. Joubert . and. L. C. G. Rogers. In this short article, we describe the pricing of an American option (call or put) on a share which may pay continuous dividends, using a ...
L. C. G. Rogers, D. Talay, 1997
3
Emerging Free and Open Source Software Practices
To write software that is compatible with proprietary software is very difficult and frequently results in inelegant code. “Sometimes code has to look inelegant to work around something. Most of the time we see curse words accompanying these ...
Sulayman K. Sowe, Ioannis G. Stamelos, Ioannis M. Samoladas, 2008
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A Curious and Inelegant Childhood: An Australian Story
This edition contains a colour collection of Linda's watercolour paintings of the area.“If we gather the threads from the snapshots of our childhood ,we find the person we have become. We find ourselves.”
Linda Brooks, 2011
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Clinical Practice of Cognitive Therapy with Children and ...
DIMENSIONS OF COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL TECHNIQUES Ellis (1962, 1979) classified cognitive-behavioral interventions along elegant and inelegant dimensions. In making this distinction, he was addressing the depth of rational ...
Robert D. Friedberg, Jessica M. McClure, 2002
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A Curious & Inelegant Childhood: Growing Up in Australia
This tightly woven collection of stories contains the warm and poignant reminiscences of a curious child fascinated by the world and its people, having a joyous passion for life, and an irrepressible thirst for answers.
‎2013
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A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
Inelegant Variation. "A draftsman should never be afraid of repeating a word as often as may be necessary in order to avoid ambiguity." Alison Russell, Legislative Drafting and Forms 103 (1938). Fowler referred to as "elegant variation" the ...
Bryan A. Garner, 2001
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An improved French grammar: containing a new method of ...
containing a new method of discovering the genders of nouns, ... an original classification of verbs, an extensive treatise on participles, ... together with a variety of remarks on expressions ungrammatical or inelegant John B. Ricord Madianna.
John B. Ricord Madianna, 1812
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of ...
[from inelegant.) Ab- { . 5 fence of beauty ; want of Made answer. .Mijton. — Reflect Upon a clear.'unblbtted, acquitted 'eon- science, and feed upon the ineffable comfort* of the memoria of a countered temptation. South.' * INEFFABLY , adv.
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1816
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
[inelegant, Latin.] 11. Not becoming ; not beautiful ; oppoQte to el> serial, are mentioned ; such as clary, saffron, and darnel. • To INEBRIATE, v. a. [mebrio, Latin.] To intoxicate ; to make drunk. — Wine sugared inebriatetb less than wine pure; ...
‎1816

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INELEGANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inelegant is used in the context of the following news items.
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Movie Review: A Hard Day -- Vulture
But even a copy would be better than most of the bloated, inelegant thrillers that come out of Hollywood these days (most of them ... «Vulture, Jul 15»
2
Hillary Gets Heckled - Slate Magazine
“No, no it is not,” she replied before launching into an inelegant response that suggested it was naïve to call for an end to drilling without a ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
3
Envisioning a Smaller, Garden-Saving Expansion for the Frick …
A firestorm of controversy subsequently erupted, with critics lambasting the plan ("banal and inelegant," anyone?)—in part because it would ... «Curbed NY, Jul 15»
4
The rise and fall of the American lawn, at least in California …
Once a broad green manifestation of the American dream, lawns are now apparently inelegant, insensitive, and unsophisticated. They're also a ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
5
Health Insurance Opportunities & Complexities of ObamaCare …
The inelegant process led to dismal results: California, for example, signed up 1.4 million people through its public exchange but only 11,500 ... «CEPro, Jul 15»
6
ANOTHER VIEW Donald Trump - Daily Jeff
With billions of dollars of his own money behind him, Donald Trump believes he can be as politically incorrect, as bold, as inelegant and as ... «The Daily Jeffersonian, Jul 15»
7
Bread, Circuses, and Skits - Patheos
in content and delivery was often more about flash than it was about substance. Our inelegant but creative non-liturgies were too often marked ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
8
Did Boy Scouts go far enough on gay scout leaders … - Reading Eagle
With billions of dollars of his own money behind him, Donald Trump believes he can be as politically incorrect, as bold, as inelegant and as ... «Reading Eagle, Jul 15»
9
Workers turned owners keep Vermont boat business afloat
... you almost spray it out of a garden hose with chopped up fiberglass and resin, but it becomes an incredibly heavy, inelegant, unportable boat ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
10
Trevor Noah does stand-up while a 'Daily Show' seat awaits …
... enterprising Twitter scavengers dug up a few old tweets that featured women, Asians, and Jews as the butts of some inelegant wisecracks. «Boston Globe, Jul 15»

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