inelegance (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 07
def the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
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Hypernym quality
Derivationally related form inelegance → inelegant
Antonym inelegance → elegance
Hyponym awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness; dowdiness, drabness, homeliness; shabbiness, seediness, manginess, sleaziness; tweediness; coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch; crudeness, roughness; boorishness, uncouthness; ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation; tastelessness
Incoming links
Derivationally related form inelegant → inelegance
Hyponym quality
Antonym elegance → inelegance
Hypernym awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness; dowdiness, drabness, homeliness; shabbiness, seediness, manginess, sleaziness; tweediness; coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch; crudeness, roughness; boorishness, uncouthness; ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation; tastelessness

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