GAUCHE: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | gowsh
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| Matching Terms: | | gaucheness, gaucherie, Gaucher's disease, gaucho
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | [adj] lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always may be feel gauche" |
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| | Synonyms: | | graceless, inelegant, unpolished |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Gauche\, n. [F.]
1. Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.
2. (Geom.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and
surfaces.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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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