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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inelegant \In*el"e*gant\, adjective [L. inelegans: cf. F. in['e]l['e]gant. See {In-} not, and {Elegant}.] Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires.
What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant. --Milton.
It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant. --Blair.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
inelegant
adjective: lacking in refinement or grace or good taste [ant: {elegant}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "inelegant": Doric, all thumbs, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, beautiless, blemished, blotted, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, cacophonic, cacophonous, careless, chintzy, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, coarse, crass, crude, cumbersome, defaced, disfigured, doggerel, dysphemistic, dysphemized, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, gross, ham-fisted, ham-handed, harsh, heavy-handed, homely, hulking, hulky, improper, impure, in bad taste, inappropriate, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, indiscreet, infelicitous, left-hand, left-handed, loutish, low, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, marred, oafish, offensive, outlandish, plain, ponderous, raw, rough, rude, short on looks, sloppy, spoiled, stiff, tasteless, uglified, ugly, ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful, unbecoming, unbeseeming, uncomely, uncourtly, uncouth, undignified, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, unfitting, ungainly, ungenteel, ungraceful, unhandsome, unhandy, unlovely, unpleasing, unpolished, unpretty, unrefined, unseemly, unsightly, unsuitable, untasteful, unwieldy, vulgar
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