Gauche
ahd-5
adjective.
Lacking grace or social polish; awkward or tactless.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Left-handed; awkward; clumsy.
In
mathematics
, skew.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
Left handed
noun.
Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.
noun.
Lacking grace and perceptivity in social situations; crude; tactless; socially inept.
noun.
Not planar; -- of molecules or molecular conformations.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
adjective.
Awkward
or lacking in
social graces
;
bumbling
.
adjective.
Skewed
, not
plane
.
adjective.
Describing a
torsion angle
of 60°
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adjective.
lacking social polish
Word Usage
"If I were strapping a sword and a main gauche, that is."
Antonyms
Words with the opposite meaning
adroit
cross-reference
gauche curve
gauche determinant
gauche polygon
gauche surface
projection
Equivalent
inelegant
Rhyme
Words with the same terminal sound
brioche
roche
Same Context
Words that are found in similar contexts
bashful
clownish
couvrir
fusil
inaccurate
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
all thumbs
awkward
awkward
blankminded
blunderheaded