slovo | definícia |
gauche (encz) | gauche,netaktní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Gauche (gcide) | Gauche \Gauche\ (g[=o]sh), n. [F.]
1. Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.
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2. (Geom.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and
surfaces.
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3. Lacking grace and perceptivity in social situations;
crude; tactless; socially inept.
Syn: graceless; unsophisticated.
[PJC]
4. (Chem.) Not planar; -- of molecules or molecular
conformations.
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gauche (wn) | gauche
adj 1: lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when
the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent
manners always made me feel gauche" [syn: gauche,
graceless, unpolished] |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
gauchely (encz) | gauchely, |
gaucheness (encz) | gaucheness,nemotornost n: Zdeněk Brožgaucheness,neohrabanost n: Zdeněk Brožgaucheness,netaktnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
gaucherie (encz) | gaucherie,neobratnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Gauche (gcide) | Gauche \Gauche\ (g[=o]sh), n. [F.]
1. Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.
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2. (Geom.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and
surfaces.
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3. Lacking grace and perceptivity in social situations;
crude; tactless; socially inept.
Syn: graceless; unsophisticated.
[PJC]
4. (Chem.) Not planar; -- of molecules or molecular
conformations.
[PJC] |
gaucheness (gcide) | gaucheness \gauche"ness\ n.
an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or
refinement.
Syn: crudeness, crudity.
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Gaucherie (gcide) | Gaucherie \Gauche`rie"\, n. [F.]
An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.
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Main-gauche (gcide) | Main-gauche \Main`-gauche"\ (m[a^]N`g[=o]sh"), n. [F., the left
hand.] (Ancient Armor)
The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in
the right; -- used to parry thrusts of the adversary's
rapier.
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gaucheness (wn) | gaucheness
n 1: an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or
refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness"
[syn: crudeness, crudity, gaucheness] |
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