gauche adj : lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always may be feel gauche" [syn: graceless, unpolished]

English

Etymology

From gauche.

Pronunciation

• , /gəʊʃ/, /g@US/

• Rhymes with: -əʊʃ

Adjective

1. Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.

   Quotations:

   • "Seeking by vulgar pomp and gauche display" — Samuel Griswold (1793-1860)

2. mathematics archaic Skewed, not plane.
3. Describing a torsion angle of 60°

Synonyms

• sense lacking in social graces graceless, tactless, unsophisticated, unpolished, gawky

Antonyms

• sense lacking in social graces adroit

Translations

French

Etymology

From gauchir, a conflation of gauchier (from *|walkan, cognate with English walk) + guenchir (from *|wenkjan). Gauche replaced the original word for left, senestre, in the sixteenth century.

Pronunciation

• /goʃ/

Antonyms

• droit

Adjective

1. awkward, gawky
2. left

Noun

1. the left, the left-hand side

Derived terms

• gauchard

Gauche can refer to many things:

• Gauche (Scheme implementation), an implementation of the Scheme programming language.
• In stereochemistry, gauche refers a specific conformer. Gauche Effect hinders bond rotation.
• A style of Western fencing using the Main-gauche.
• In music, Gauche is an independent rock band from São Paulo, Brazil.
• In Paris, the Rive Gauche is on the upper bank of the Seine.
• In French, gauche generally means "left" or "awkward"

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