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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. lacking social polish;
- Example: "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"
- Example: "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"
[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]