Inelastic
(In`e*las"tic) a. Not elastic.
Inelasticity
(In`e*las*tic"i*ty) n. Want of elasticity.
Inelegance
(In*el"e*gance In*el"e*gan*cy) n.; pl. Inelegances Inelegancies [L. inelegantia: cf. F.
inélégance.]
1. The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace; want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language,
composition, or manners.
The notorious inelegance of her figure.
T. Hook. 2. Anything inelegant; as, inelegance of style in literary composition.
Inelegant
(In*el"e*gant) a. [L. inelegans: cf. F. inélégant. 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.
