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askew
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective askew has 1 sense
- askew(s = adj.all) awry, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky - turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"
Adverbial askew has 1 sense
- askew(r = adv.all) awry, skew-whiff - turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry"
CIDE DICTIONARY
askew, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + skew.].
Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
askew, adv. & predic.adj.
--adv. obliquely; awry.
--predic.adj. oblique; awry.
--adv. obliquely; awry.
--predic.adj. oblique; awry.
Etymology
A(2) + SKEW
THESAURUS
askew
aberrant, abroad, adrift, agee, agee-jawed, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, anamorphous, askance, askant, askewgee, asquint, astray, asymmetric, at fault, awry, bent, beside the mark, bowed, cam, catawampous, catawamptious, contorted, convulsed, corrupt, crazy, crooked, crookedly, crumpled, crunched, deceptive, defective, delusive, deranged, deviant, deviational, deviative, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, distorted, disturbed, errant, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, flawed, haywire, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory, in disorder, irregular, labyrinthine, lopsided, misplaced, nonsymmetric, not right, not true, off, off the track, on the fritz, one-sided, out, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, peccant, perturbed, perverse, perverted, roily, self-contradictory, shuffled, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, slaunchways, sprung, squinting, straying, tortuous, turbid, turbulent, twisted, unfactual, unorthodox, unproved, unsettled, unsymmetric, untrue, upset, wamper-jawed, warped, wide, wrong, wry, yaw-waysROGET THESAURUS
askew
Distortion
N distortion, detortion, contortion, twist, crookedness, grimace, deformity, malformation, malconformation, harelip, monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis, ugliness, talipes, teratology, asymmetry, irregularity, distorted, out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked, not true, not straight, on one side, crump, deformed, harelipped, misshapen, misbegotten, misproportioned, ill proportioned, ill-made, grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn, camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed, bandy, bandy legged, bow legged, bow kneed, knock kneed, splay footed, club footed, round shouldered, snub nosed, curtailed of one's fair proportions, stumpy, gaunt, bloated, scalene, simous, taliped, talipedic, all manner of ways, crooked as a Virginia fence.
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