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[syn: gauche, graceless, unpolished]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
gauche
adj 1: lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when
the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent
manners always made me feel gauche" [syn: gauche,
graceless, unpolished]
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