Explore Inelegant through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like gauche or unrefined. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Inelegant in a sentence
Inelegant meaning
Not elegant; not exhibiting neatness, refinement, or precision.
Synonyms of Inelegant
Using Inelegant
- The main meaning on this page is: Not elegant; not exhibiting neatness, refinement, or precision.
- Useful related words include: gauche, unrefined, undignified, tasteless.
- In the example corpus, inelegant often appears in combinations such as: an inelegant, the inelegant, inelegant is.
Context around Inelegant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Inelegant
- In this selection, "inelegant" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, algorithm, believed, wall, program, act and demise stand out and add context to how "inelegant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a wall inelegant and alone and an inelegant program for. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "inelegant" sits close to words such as abdulrasheed, abhinav and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with inelegant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Inelegant in his manners, loose in his morals. (8 words)
Saddam Hussein’s inelegant demise is captured by cellphone. (9 words)
Twilight footage of him building a wall, inelegant and alone. (10 words)
It is believed inelegant and a matter that would go against the grain of our procedural law for Courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction instead of endeavouring to shore up the jurisdiction of each other engage in a form of unsavoury competition. (41 words)
Computer science In modern computing terminology, a kludge (or often a "hack") is a solution to a problem, doing a task, or fixing a system that is inefficient, inelegant or even unfathomable, but which nevertheless (more or less) works. (39 words)
An inelegant program for Euclid's algorithm "Inelegant" is a translation of Knuth's version of the algorithm with a subtraction-based remainder-loop replacing his use of division (or a "modulus" instruction). (33 words)
Example sentences (16)
An inelegant program for Euclid's algorithm "Inelegant" is a translation of Knuth's version of the algorithm with a subtraction-based remainder-loop replacing his use of division (or a "modulus" instruction).
It is believed inelegant and a matter that would go against the grain of our procedural law for Courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction instead of endeavouring to shore up the jurisdiction of each other engage in a form of unsavoury competition.
More fundamentally, a Tinubu who rose to power on the cusp of attracting A-list technocrats should never be found with the inelegant act of hiding details of his own academic records.
Saddam Hussein’s inelegant demise is captured by cellphone.
Say what you will about Haley (and I’ve said an inelegant sufficiency about her, ’tis true), but in baselining Biden’s age she is just saying what everyone else is thinking.
Twilight footage of him building a wall, inelegant and alone.
True, it was inelegant, but soon he was using me as a launchpad.
According to him, the festering nature of this crisis (farmers-herders’ conflict) was an inelegant testimony to the sharp divisions and polarisations that exist across the country.
Computer science In modern computing terminology, a kludge (or often a "hack") is a solution to a problem, doing a task, or fixing a system that is inefficient, inelegant or even unfathomable, but which nevertheless (more or less) works.
Corncob Corncob pipe On the other end of the scale, the specifically American style of pipes made from corncobs are cheap and effective, even if some regard them as inelegant.
Inelegant in his manners, loose in his morals.
In in 1987, David Hepworth claimed: "Marillion may represent the inelegant, unglamorous, public bar end of the current Rock Renaissance but they are no less part of it for that.
Our judgment therefore comes down to which we find more wasteful and inelegant: many worlds or many words.
Tausworthe 1997:294 Measuring and improving the Euclid algorithms Elegance (compactness) versus goodness (speed): With only six core instructions, "Elegant" is the clear winner, compared to "Inelegant" at thirteen instructions.
There have been several attempts, including by Intel itself, to end the market dominance of the "inelegant" x86 architecture designed directly from the first simple 8-bit microprocessors.
This usage is considered incorrect, or at least inelegant, by many.
Common combinations with inelegant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an inelegant 3×
- the inelegant 3×
- inelegant is 2×
- inelegant and 2×
- and inelegant 2×