askew

askew
Synonyms and related words:
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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  • Askew — A*skew , adv. & a. [Pref. a + skew.] Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry. Spenser. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Askew — (spr. Äskju), 1) Anna, geb. 1521, grübelte frühzeitig über die Religionsstreitigkeiten, ward von ihrem streng katholischen Gatten Kyne verstoßen, bei Heinrich VIII. als Irrlehrerin angeklagt u. verhaftet; vor Gericht läugnete sie die… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • askew — index disordered, oblique (slanted) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • askew — 1570s, of uncertain etymology; perhaps lit. on skew (see SKEW (Cf. skew)), or from the Old Norse form, a ska. Earlier askoye is attested in the same sense (early 15c.) …   Etymology dictionary

  • askew — *awry, askance Analogous words: crookedly, obliquely (see corresponding adjectives at CROOKED) Antonyms: straight …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • askew — [adj] crooked askance, askant, aslant, awry, bent, buckled, catawampus*, cockeyed*, crookedly, curved, knotted, lopsided, oblique, obliquely, off center, slanted, slanting, to one side, topsy turvey*, turned, twisted, yaw ways*, zigzag*; concept… …   New thesaurus

  • askew — ► ADVERB & ADJECTIVE ▪ not straight or level …   English terms dictionary

  • askew — [ə skyo͞o′] adv. [ A 1 + SKEW] to one side; awry; crookedly adj. on one side; awry …   English World dictionary

  • Askew — This surname recorded as Askew, Ascough, Ainscough and Ainscow, is of Old Norse origin, and is a locational name from Aiskew in the North Riding of Yorkshire, deriving from the elements eiki meaning oak, plus skogr , wood; hence, oak wood . The… …   Surnames reference

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