gauche

• POS: Adjective

CIDE DICTIONARY

gauche, n. [F.].

•  Left handed;  [1913 Webster]
•  Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.  [1913 Webster]
•  Lacking grace and perceptivity in social situations; crude; tactless; socially inept.  [PJC]
•  Not planar; -- of molecules or molecular conformations.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gauche, adj.
1 lacking ease or grace; socially awkward.
2 tactless.

Derivative

gauchely adv. gaucheness n.

Etymology

F, = left-handed, awkward

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

gauche

Unskillfulness

N unskillfulness, want of skill, incompetence, incompentency, inability, infelicity, indexterity, inexperience, disqualification, unproficiency, quackery, folly, stupidity indiscretion, thoughtlessness, sabotage, mismanagement, misconduct, impolicy, maladministration, misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance, petticoat government, absence of rule, rule of thumb, bungling, failure, screw loose: too many cooks, blunder, etourderie gaucherie, act of folly, balourdise, botch, botchery, bad job, sad work, sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild- goose chase, bungler, fool, unskillful, inexpert, bungling, awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit, left-handed, heavy-handed, slovenly, slatternly, gawky, adrift, at fault, inapt, unapt, inhabile, untractable, unteachable, giddy, inconsiderate, stupid inactive, incompetent, unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified, unfit, quackish, raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice, unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c, uninitiated, unconversant, 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, one's fingers being all thumbs, the right hand forgets its cunning, il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, out of the frying pan into the fire, non omnia possumus omnes.