inelegantly
adverb
inelegantly is an adverb meaning “In an inelegant manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-E-L-E-G-A-N-T-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 36 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does inelegantly mean?
adverb
- 1
In an inelegant manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce inelegantly?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-inelegantly.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of inelegantly
- more inelegantly comparative
- most inelegantly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is inelegantly?
Inelegantly appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Inelegantly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense in an inelegant manner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | inélégamment |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does inelegantly come from?
From inelegant + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).