inelegance

Other forms of inelegance

plural

inelegances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inelegance

What does inelegance mean?

inelegance means "the quality of lacking refinement and good taste".

How many syllables are in inelegance?

inelegance has 4 syllables: i-ne-le-gance. The stress falls on "ne".

What is the opposite of inelegance?

The recorded antonyms are elegance.

Is inelegance a common word?

inelegance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.