Askew
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Etymology
From Old Norse á ská (“askew, askance”), equivalent to a- + skew. Compare Icelandic á ská (“diagonally”), Danish skrå (“slanting, oblique”), German Schräge (“slope, slant”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
Askew
- Turned or twisted to one side.
- (figuratively) Untoward, unfavourable.
Adverb
Askew (comparative more Askew, superlative most Askew)
- tilted to one side.
- He wore his hat askew
- with disapproval
- to look askew
Thesaurus
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-ways
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