Gauche \Gauche\ (g[=o]sh), 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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
graceless, unpolished
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