Synonyms

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gress; caucus, bloc, Rom. Antiq. comitia, junta; forgathering, conjunction, coalescence.
4. party, get together, do; banquet, dinner, luncheon; ball, dance, cotillion; reception, function; tea, coffee, coffee klatch, social; soiree, levee, salon.
5. boil, abscess, carbuncle, ulcer, canker; pimple, pustule, Sl. zit. gauche, adj. 1. ill-bred, ill-mannered, uncouth, unrefined, unpolished, unladylike, ungentlemanly; coarse, indelicate, crude, cloddish; vulgar, ordinary, common; piggish, boorish, gross; tactless, insensitive, imperceptive, crass; dull, dense, mutton-headed; provincial, unsophisticated, Inf. just off the farm, Inf hick.
2. awkward, gawky, clumsy, bumbling, maladroit; all-thumbs, having two left feet, unhandy, unskillful, inept, bunglesome, bungling, Inf. klutzy; ungraceful, ungainly, lumbering, lubberly, like a bull in a china shop. gaucherie, n. 1. blunder, Fr. faux pas, misbehavior, bad job; botch, botchery, bungle; crudity, vulgarity; breach of etiquette, social slip, gaffe.
2. gracelessness, uncouthness, bad taste, Fr. mauvais gobt; unmannerliness, indecorum, impoliteness, inelegance; insensitivity, tactlessness, boorishness, rudeness, coarseness; awkwardness, clumsiness, gawkiness, ungainliness, Inf. klutziness. gaudy, adj. 1. garish, flashy, Sl. flash, loud, bold, painted, hard, Inf honky-tonk; tawdry, meretricious, cheap, dime-store, tinselly, brummagem, gimcrack, trumpery, trashy, Inf chintzy, Inf. tacky, Sl. rinky-dink; tasteless, in bad taste, indelicate, crude, vulgar. 2. ornate, baroque, elaborate, involved, Music. bravura; fancy, florid, flowery, high-wrought, high-flown; frilly, overdecorated, gingerbread, fussy, busy, Archaic, bedighted, conspicuous, striking, flagrant, obvious; flamboyant, showy, ostentatious, flaring, flaunting, pretentious. gauge, v. 1. appraise, evaluate, value, assess; estimate, figure, reckon, compute; judge, adjudge, rate, consider, determine.
2. measure, weigh, balance; mark out, delineate, trace, outline, limn.
-n. 3. test, criterion, standard, guideline, touchstone, bench mark, yardstick; measure, rule, norm.
4. extent, degree, scope, area; reach, limit, bound, size, magnitude, depth, width, height; capacity, ability, capability. gaunt, adj. 1. thin, thin as a reed or rail, lean, meager, spare, lank, lanky; skinny, too skinny to throw a shadow, skin-and-bones, bony, rawboned; skeletal, emaciated, angular; stalky, spindly, spindle-shanked, spindle-legged; scrawny, scraggy, looking like a plucked chicken, weedy; pinched, starved-looking, withered, shriveled, wasted, hollow-cheeked.
2. haggard, looking like the wrath of God, worn-and-weary, looking like six o'clock, drawn; sickly-looking, peaked, looking like death warmed over, cadaverous.
3. bleak, desolate, dreary, dismal, forlorn; barren, bare, windswept, treeless, denuded; grim, stern, harsh, forbidding.
gauntlet, n. 1. glove, mitten; mail, armor.
2. ordeal, trial, tribulation, suffering, punishment, adversity; affliction, misery, distress, hardship, hard times.
gauzy, adj. sheer, diaphanous, transparent, tran spicuous, translucent, filmy, gossamer; revealing, see-through, Clothing, peekaboo; silky, silken, chiffon.
gavel, n. mallet, tapper, small hammer.