Synonyms for gauche
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Graceless — awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling; apt to make gaffes
graceless, uncouth, awkward, unpolished, tactless, inelegant, unsophisticated, gawky, unrefined, uncivilized, uncivilised UK, clumsy, ungraceful informal
Definitions
- adj. 1
Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling; apt to make gaffes.
Related words
- Word family
- gauchely gaucheness
- Phrases
- gauche caviar main gauche
Example sentences
- awkward At first the trainees were awkward in his company.
- unpolished Who brought this unpolished country bumpkin?
- tactless Tom's remark was tactless and insensitive.
- graceless The graceless lummox stumbled into the room, knocking over a lamp on his way in.
- tasteless Fish can be dry and tasteless if it's overcooked.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| gauche | steady | |
| awkward | rising | |
| unpolished | steady | |
| tactless | steady | |
| graceless | steady | |
| tasteless | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- gawky2
- 6 letters
- clumsy2
- 7 letters
- awkward2, uncouth2, gauched
- 8 letters
- tactless2
- 9 letters
- tasteless2, unrefined3, inelegant, graceless2
- 10 letters
- unpolished, ungraceful
- 11 letters
- uncivilized4, uncivilised
- 15 letters
- unsophisticated6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gawky2 = 2 syllables).