Synonyms for Gauche | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "gauche" (111 found)

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Closest matches (23)

all thumbsawkward blankminded blunderheaded blundering boorish bumbling bungling butterfingered callow careless clownish clumsy clumsy-fisted crude cumbersome dumb emptyempty headedempty-headed

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fingers all thumbs

Adjective(2 words)

awkward awkwardest

Strong matches (33)

fumbling gawkish gawky graceless green groping halting ham-fisted ham-handedheavy handedheavy-handed hulking hulky ignorant improper inane inapt incompetent inelegant inept

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inexperienced innocentknow nothingknow-nothingleft handedleft-hand left-handed

Adjective(1 words)

gaudy

Adjective(5 words)

gawkier graceless inept klutziestleft leaning

Related words (55)

Adjective(7 words)

leftist progressivesimple vocabularytactless ungraceful unpolished unskillful

loutish lubberly lumbering lumpish maladroit naive nescient oafish plebeian ponderous raw rude simple sloppy stiffstrange totasteless tentative unacquaintedunacquainted with

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Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

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More general

4 entries

character traitideologypolitical ideologysocial trait

More specific

7 entries

awkward remarkclumsy gestureinept gestureliberalism progressivism socialismtactless comment

Collocations

5 entries

gauche behaviorgauche impressiongauche mannergauche remarkgauche social context

Derivations

2 entries

gauchely gaucherie

similar

1 entries

inelegant

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Tom is so naive that his gauche manners can hardly offend anyone.

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A Parliamentary Minister is a man trained by elaborate practice not to blurt out crude things, and an English Parliament is an assembly which particularly dislikes anything gauche or anything imprudent.

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I am so gauche with these wretched baubles.

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"Oh, what are you like? You're so gauche!" she laughed. "Here, read this." She threw a book towards me. I caught it. "What is it?" "A sodding book! What do you think it is?"

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Gauche