Synonyms of the word awry


AWRYAMISS - ASKEW - COCKEYED - CROOKED - HAYWIRE - LOPSIDED - MALFUNCTIONING - NONFUNCTIONAL - SKEW-WHIFF - WONKY - WRONG

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.

amiss

  • adj. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.
  • adv. Mistakenly, wrongly.
  • n. (obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.

askew

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

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.

haywire

  • n. Wire used to bind bales of hay.
  • adj. Roughly-made, unsophisticated, decrepit (from the use of haywire for temporary repairs).
  • adj. Behaving erratically or uncontrollably, especially of a machine or mechanical process; usually used with…

lopsided

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

malfunctioning

  • v. present participle of malfunction.
  • n. A malfunction.

nonfunctional

  • adj. Not functional; useless; broken.

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.

wrong

  • adj. Incorrect or untrue.
  • adj. Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
  • adj. Immoral, not good, bad.
  • adj. Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
  • adj. Not working; out of order.
  • adj. Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
  • adj. (obsolete) Twisted; wry.
  • adv. (informal) In a way that isn't right; incorrectly, wrongly.
  • n. Something that is immoral or not good.
  • n. An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
  • n. The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
  • n. The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
  • v. To treat unjustly; to injure or harm.
  • v. To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
  • v. To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.

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