GAUCHE

gauche, graceless, unpolished

(adjective) lacking social polish; “too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate”; “their excellent manners always made me feel gauche”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

gauche (comparative more gauche, superlative most gauche)

Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.

(mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.

(chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°.

Synonyms

• (lacking in social graces): graceless, tactless, unsophisticated, unpolished, gawky

Antonyms

• (lacking in social graces): adroit

Anagrams

• guache

Source: Wiktionary


Gauche, n. Etym: [F.]

1. Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.

2. (Geom.)

Definition: Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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