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gaffe

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of gaffe

1 a socially improper or unsuitable act or remark
  • He committed a huge gaffe when he started drinking from the finger bowl.
Synonyms of gaffe

familiarity, faux pas, gaff, impropriety, indiscretion, solecism
Words Related to gaffe

blunder, error, flub, fumble, goof, lapse, miscue, misstep, mistake, oversight, slip, slipup, stumble

discourtesy, incivility, offense (or offence)

foul-up, muff

misapprehension, miscalculation, misconception, misjudgment, misstatement, misunderstanding
Near Antonyms of gaffe

form, manners, mores, proprieties
Antonyms of gaffe

amenity, attention, civility, courtesy, formality, gesture, pleasantry
2 an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy
  • so-called debates, which were mainly about seeing which candidate made the most gaffes
Synonyms of gaffe

blunder, bobble, boo-boo, brick, clinker, error, fault, flub, fluff, fumble, gaff, goof, inaccuracy, lapse, miscue, misstep, mistake, oversight, screwup, slip, slipup, stumble, trip
Words Related to gaffe

bloomer, blooper, boner, howler, pratfall

foul-up, snafu

misapprehension, miscalculation, miscomprehension, misconception, misconstruction, miscue, misdescription, misimpression, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misreading, misstatement, misunderstanding
Near Antonyms of gaffe

accuracy, correctness, exactitude, exactness, preciseness, precision, strictness

inerrancy, infallibility, perfection

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