inelegance

in·el·e·gance  (n-l-gns)

n.

Lack of refinement or polish.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

inelegance - the quality of lacking refinement and good taste quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare gracelessness, clumsiness, awkwardness, stiffness - the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) dowdiness, drabness, homeliness - having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance manginess, seediness, shabbiness, sleaziness - a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing tweediness - an informal, homely, outdoor look characteristic of those who wear tweeds grossness, raunch, vulgarity, vulgarism, commonness, coarseness - the quality of lacking taste and refinement crudeness, roughness - an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her" uncouthness, boorishness - inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness, ostentation, puffiness, inflation - lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity tastelessness - inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste elegance - a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste; "she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility"

Translations

inelegance

n → Uneleganz f; (of clothes, person also) → Mangel m → an Schick or Eleganz; (of style also) → Schwerfälligkeit f, → Unausgewogenheit f; (of prose, phrase also) → Ungeschliffenheit f, → Plumpheit f, → Schwerfälligkeit f; (of dialect) → Derbheit f, → Schwerfälligkeit f