Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked, askew |
| Synonyms: | absurd, askance, askant, asymmetrical, awry, cam, canted, crazy, crooked, cross-eyed, lopsided, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, squint, strabismic |
| Antonyms: | level, straight |
| Main Entry: | awry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | off course; amiss |
| Synonyms: | afield, askance, askew, aslant, astray, badly, bent, cockeyed, crooked, curved, slanting, turned, wrong, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | ok, on course |
| Main Entry: | crazy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrealistic, fantastic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, balmy, beyond all reason, bizarre, cockeyed, derisory, eccentric, fatuous, foolhardy, foolish, goofy*, half-baked, harebrained, idiotic, ill-conceived, impracticable, imprudent, inane, inappropriate, insane, irresponsible, loony, ludicrous, nonsensical, odd, out of all reason, outrageous, peculiar, preposterous, puerile, quixotic, ridiculous, senseless, short-sighted, silly, strange, unworkable, weird, wild |
| Antonyms: | believeable, realistic, reasonable, sensible |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crooked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bent, angled |
| Synonyms: | agee, anfractuous, angular, asymmetric, awry, bowed, catawampus, circuitous, cockeyed, contorted, crippled, curved, curving, deformed, deviating, devious, disfigured, distorted, errant, gnarled, hooked, incurving, indirect, irregular, kinky, knurly, lopsided, meandering, misshapen, not straight, oblique, out of shape, rambling, roundabout, screwy, serpentine, sinuous, skewed, slanted, snaky, spiral, tilted, topsy-turvy, tortile, tortuous, twisted, twisting, uneven, warped, winding, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | eccentric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bizarre, unusual |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, beat*, bent*, bizarre, capricious, characteristic, cockeyed, crazy, curious, droll, erratic, far out, flaky, freak, freakish, funky*, funny, idiosyncratic, irregular, kooky, nutty, odd, oddball, off the wall, off-center, offbeat, out in left field, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, singular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, unnatural, way out, weird, whimsical, wild |
| Antonyms: | boring, common, dull, normal, ordinary, plain, regular, standard, unexciting, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illogical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not making sense |
| Synonyms: | absurd, casuistic, cockeyed, fallacious, false, fatuous, faulty, groundless, hollow, implausible, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, incorrect, invalid, irrational, irrelevant, mad, meaningless, not following, nutty, off the wall, preposterous, screwy, self-contradictory, senseless, sophistic, sophistical, specious, spurious, unconnected, unproved, unreasonable, unscientific, unsound, unsubstantial, untenable, wacky, without basis, without foundation |
| Antonyms: | correct, logical, meaningful, rational, reasonable, right, sensible |
| Main Entry: | irregular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bumpy, uneven |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, amorphous, asymmetrical, bent, broken, cockeyed, craggy, crooked, devious, disproportionate, eccentric, elliptic, elliptical, hilly, jagged, lopsided, lumpy, meandering, not uniform, notched, off-balance, off-center, out of proportion, pitted, protuberant, rough, scarred, serrate, serrated, unaligned, unbalanced, unequal, unsymmetrical, variable, wobbly, zigzagged |
| Antonyms: | even, flat, level, smooth |
| Main Entry: | lopsided |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | leaning, falling to one side; larger on one side |
| Synonyms: | askew, asymmetrical, awry, cockeyed, crooked, disproportional, disproportionate, inclinatory, irregular, nonsymmetrical, off-balance, one-sided, out of shape, overbalanced, squint, tilting, top-heavy, unbalanced, unequal, uneven, unsteady, warped |
| Antonyms: | even, level, straight, unleaning |
| Main Entry: | topsy-turvy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mixed-up |
| Synonyms: | chaotic, cluttered, cockeyed, confused, disarranged, disheveled, disjointed, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, downside-up, inside-out, inverted, jumbled, littered, luxated, messy, muddled, overturned, pell-mell, riotous, tangled, tumultous/tumultuous, unhinged, untidy, upended, upside-down, upturned |
| Antonyms: | ordered, organized, straight |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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