Uncouth vs Gauche - What's the difference?
uncouth | gauche | Related terms |
(archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
* 1819 : , The Sketch Book (The Voyage)
Clumsy, awkward.
Unrefined, crude.
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Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.
*19th century , (1793-1860), The Spirit Court of Practice and Pretence :
*:Seeking by vulgar pomp and gauche display
*:In 'good society', to make her way
* 1879 , George Meredith, The Egoist ,
*1895 , H.G. Wells, The Wonderful Visit , :
*:"He's a trifle gauche'" said Lady Hammergallow, jumping upon the Vicar's attention. "He neither bows nor smiles. He must cultivate oddities like that. Every successful executant is more or less ' gauche ."
(mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.
(chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°
As adjectives the difference between uncouth and gauche
is that uncouth is unfamiliar, strange, foreign while gauche is awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.uncouth
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols.
Synonyms
*Derived terms
* uncouthnessgauche
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She looked a trifle gauche , it struck me; more like a country girl with the hoyden taming in her than the well-bred creature she is.