3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: gauche adj : lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always may be feel gauche" [syn: {graceless}, {unpolished}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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
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