Found 3 hits - Term: gauche, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gauche \gauche\ g=osh, n. f.
1. left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.
1913 webster
2. geom. winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and
surfaces.
1913 webster
3. lacking grace and perceptivity in social situations;
crude; tactless; socially inept.
syn: graceless; unsophisticated.
pjc
4. chem. not planar; -- of molecules or molecular
conformations.
pjc
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
gauche
adj : lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when
the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent
manners always may be feel gauche" syn: graceless, unpolished
see also:
graceless unpolished
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
80 moby thesaurus words for "gauche":
all thumbs, awkward, blankminded, blunderheaded, blundering,
boorish, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, callow, careless,
clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, crude, cumbersome, dumb, empty,
empty-headed, fingers all thumbs, fumbling, gawkish, gawky,
graceless, green, groping, halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed,
heavy-handed, hulking, hulky, ignorant, inane, inelegant, inept,
inexperienced, innocent, know-nothing, left-hand, left-handed,
loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, naive, nescient,
oafish, ponderous, raw, simple, sloppy, stiff, strange to,
tentative, unacquainted, unapprized, uncomprehending, unconversant,
uncouth, unenlightened, unfamiliar, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy,
unhappy, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, unintelligent,
unknowing, unpolished, unposted, unripe, unsure, unversed,
unwieldy, vacuous, wooden
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