gauche as an adjective: - 1
gauche
adjective
1 gauche
Lacking social polish:
— Too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate.
— Their excellent manners always made me feel gauche.
synonyms: graceless, unpolished.
Roget 699:
unskillful
etc.
698;
inexpert;
bungling
etc.
v.;
awkward,
clumsy,
unhandy,
lubberly,
gauche,
maladroit;
left-handed,
heavy-handed;
slovenly,
slatternly;
gawky.
adrift,
at fault.
inapt,
unapt;
inhabile [Fr.];
untractable†,
unteachable;
giddy
etc.
(inattentive)
458;
inconsiderate
etc.
(neglectful)
460;
stupid
etc.
499;
inactive
etc.
683;
incompetent;
unqualified,
disqualified,
ill-qualified;
unfit;
quackish;
raw,
green,
inexperienced,
rusty,
out of practice.
unaccustomed,
unused,
untrained
etc.
537,
uninitiated,
unconversant
etc.
(ignorant)
491†;
shiftless;
unstatesmanlike.
unadvised;
ill-advised,
misadvised;
ill-devised,
ill-imagined,
ill-judged,
ill-contrived,
ill-conducted;
unguided,
misguided;
misconducted,
foolish,
wild;
infelicitous;
penny wise and pound foolish
etc.
(inconsistent)
608.
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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 ... show more.
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