Synonyms of the word askew


ASKEWAWRY - COCKEYED - CROOKED - LOPSIDED - SKEW-WHIFF - WONKY

askew

  • adj. Turned or twisted to one side.
  • adj. (figuratively) Untoward, unfavourable.
  • adv. Tilted to one side.

awry

  • adv. Obliquely, crookedly; askew.
  • adv. Perversely, improperly.
  • adj. Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place.
  • adj. Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss.

cockeyed

  • adj. (US) Having both eyes oriented inward.
  • adj. (US) Crooked or askew.
  • adj. (US, informal) Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people.
  • adj. Drunk.

crooked

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of crook.
  • adj. Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
  • adj. Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
  • adj. (figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.

lopsided

  • adj. Not even or balanced; not the same on one side as on the other.

skew-whiff

  • adj. (Britain, Australia, colloquial) Askew; lopsided, not straight.

wonky

  • adj. Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
  • adj. (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Feeble, shaky or rickety.
  • adj. (computing, especially Usenet) Suffering from intermittent bugs; broken.
  • adj. Generally incorrect.
  • n. A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
  • adj. Technically worded, in the style of jargon.

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