gaucheadjective
uk/ɡəʊʃ/us/ɡoʊʃ/awkward and uncomfortable with other people, especially because young and without experience:
She had grown from a gauche teenager to a self-assured young woman.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Inability and awkwardness
- accident-prone
- all thumbs idiom
- amateurish
- at your worst idiom
- awkward
- boil
- fumble
- geek
- ham-fisted
- have nothing on sb or sth idiom
- have two left feet idiom
- incapacitate
- nerd
- no great shakes idiom
- not have a prayer idiom
- obey
- organize
- paralysed
- prone
- rubbish
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