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单词 inelegant
释义
inelegant
adjective
uk
/ɪˈnel.ɪ.ɡənt/us
/ˌɪnˈel.ə.ɡənt/
notattractive,especiallybecause of beingawkwardinmovementormanner:
an inelegantposture不雅的姿态
inelegantsurroundings粗俗的环境
notskilfulorpoliteindealingwith orexpressingsomething:
Too manyprogramsareugly: inelegant,unreliableand not veryuseful.
Opposite
elegant
More examples
  • Worse, thecurtainslookedinelegant, ill-hung andcheap.
  • Leggings areabsurdlyinelegant andtremendouslyunflattering.
  • It was inelegant, afauxpaseven, tospeakofexpenses,costsandsalaries.
  • Theprocessis still inelegant but itworks.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not attractive to look at
  • back end
  • be no oil paintingidiom
  • be not much to look atidiom
  • bleakly
  • bleakness
  • chintzy
  • excrescence
  • gopping
  • gracelessly
  • hatchet-faced
  • have a face like the back end of a busidiom
  • hideous
  • hideousness
  • pretty
  • pretty-pretty
  • reptilian
  • scrappily
  • scrappy
  • vulgarity
  • vulgarly
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Inability and awkwardness
Crude and basic

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inelegantly
(Definition ofinelegantfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
inelegant
adjective
uk
/ɪˈnel.ɪ.ɡənt/us
/ˌɪnˈel.ə.ɡənt/
notattractive
不雅的；粗俗的
an inelegantposture不雅的姿态
inelegantsurroundings粗俗的环境

inelegant| American Dictionary

inelegant
adjective
us
/ɪnˈel·ɪ·ɡənt/
notgracefulandattractiveincharacterorappearance:
inelegant writing
(Definition ofinelegantfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinelegant

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This is partly (but not entirely) a matter of anecdotal andinelegantstyle : the book badly needs an editor.
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This approach to debugging may seem awkward orinelegant.
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It seems generally accepted as standard, in spite of criticism labeling itinelegantor imprecise.
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Lastly, the book was not as successful as it could have been due toinelegantorganization and excruciatingly dry, overly detailed text.
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So this reading, decidedlyinelegantfrom the poetic standpoint, is paradoxically a more elegant emendation.
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In modern commercial spreadsheets, logical functions have aninelegantsyntax and inappropriate editing tools.
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The alternative, stipulation of a list of contexts where centralisation occurs, is formallyinelegantas well as phonetically uninsightful.
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For example, on page 219 we find a fairlyinelegantway of compressing 33 bits into two integers.
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But the duplication of operators may seeminelegant, and it introduces the risk of using the wrong one.
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In the absence of support for mutual recursion between structures, we are forced to useinelegantencodings at the level of the core language.
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As to the provision of implicit arguments to functions, this is workable butinelegant.
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This may in part be due to the extremelyinelegantand prosaic nature of the organization's name, particularly in contrast with public perception of its role.
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Aninelegantway to avoid this is to instantiate the chart with fresh copies of all rules and lexical entries, and to copy nodes before applying a restriction operator.
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The above solution is general, but it isinelegantand expensive because it requires constructing set representations twice: once for the set and again for its pseudo-complement cl(-).
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The term "subsidiarity" is singularlyinelegant, but it is important.
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