'Gauche' definitions:
Definition of 'gauche'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Gauche'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'gauche'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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