He committed a gaffe when he asked whether she was pregnant.
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Gaffe
//ɡæf//
Synonyms for "gaffe" (57 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (28)
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11 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 24 languages.
Breton
2 entries- fallvarch noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- fazienn noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Bulgarian
2 entries- гаф noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- грешка noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 出醜 /出丑 noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- 過失 /过失 noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Czech
3 entries- blbost noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- bota noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- kravina noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Danish
1 entries- fejltagelse noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Dutch
4 entries- blunder noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- flater noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- gaffe noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- misstap noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Finnish
3 entries- moka noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- munaus noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- möhläys noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
French
3 entries- bévue noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- faux pas noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- gaffe noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Galician
4 entries- cabuco noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- disquenza noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- esquenza noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- falenza noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
German
3 entries- Ausrutscher noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- Fauxpas noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- Patzer noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Greek
1 entries- γκάφα noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Hebrew
1 entries- פַשְלָה noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Hungarian
2 entries- ballépés noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- ügyetlenség noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Italian
4 entries- errore noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- figuraccia noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- gaffe noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- sproposito noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Japanese
1 entries- 失策 noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Macedonian
2 entries- гаф noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- гре́шка noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Norwegian
1 entries- brøler noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Polish
1 entries- gafa noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Portuguese
1 entries- gafe noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Romanian
1 entries- gafă noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Russian
4 entries- конфуз noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- опло́шность noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- оши́бка noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- про́мах noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Spanish
4 entries- cagada noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- desliz noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- gazapo noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- metedura de pata noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Swedish
3 entries- blunder noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- fadäs noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
- tabbe noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Turkish
1 entries- gaf noun (a foolish error, especially one made in public)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
What a gaffe!
Source: tatoeba (6616300)
Tom made a gaffe.
Source: tatoeba (8098120)
make a gaffe
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