Antonyms of adj inelegant

1 sense of inelegant

Sense 1
inelegant (vs. elegant) -- (lacking in refinement or grace or good taste)

elegant (vs. inelegant) -- (refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid")
        => dandified, dandyish, foppish -- (affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner)
        => deluxe, de luxe, luxe -- (elegant and sumptuous; "a deluxe car"; "luxe accommodations")
        => fine -- (characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment; "fine wine"; "looking fine in her Easter suit"; "a fine gentleman"; "fine china and crystal"; "a fine violinist"; "the fine hand of a master")
        => high-class, high-toned -- (pretentiously elegant; "a high-toned restaurant")
        => exquisite, recherche -- (lavishly elegant and refined)
        => neat, refined, tasteful -- (free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset")
        => ritzy -- (luxuriously elegant)
        => soigne, soignee -- (polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance)

Similarity of adj inelegant

1 sense of inelegant

Sense 1
inelegant (vs. elegant) -- (lacking in refinement or grace or good taste)
       => gauche, graceless, unpolished -- (lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche")
       => homely -- (without artificial refinement or elegance; "plain homely furniture"; "homely manners")
          Also See-> tactless#1, untactful#1; tasteless#2; undignified#1; unrefined#2

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