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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked |
| Synonyms: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | deformed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disfigured, distorted |
| Synonyms: | askew, awry, bent, blemished, bowed, buckled, contorted, cramped, crippled, crooked, curved, damaged, disjointed, gnarled, grotesque, humpbacked, hunchbacked, ill-made, irregular, knotted, maimed, malformed, mangled, marred, misproportioned, misshapen, out of shape, scarred, twisted, ugly, warped |
| Antonyms: | beautified, beautiful, graceful, improved, shapely, symmetrical |
| Main Entry: | diagonal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angled |
| Synonyms: | askew, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, cater-cornered, catty-cornered, cornerways, cross, crossways, crosswise, inclining, kitty-cornered, oblique, skewing, slanted, slanting, transversal, transverse |
| Main Entry: | erroneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong, incorrect |
| Synonyms: | all off, all wet, amiss, askew, awry, defective, fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, inaccurate, inexact, invalid, misguided, mistaken, off, specious, spurious, unfounded, unsound, untrue, way off, wrong number |
| Antonyms: | correct, right, true, valid |
| 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: | misshapen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deformed |
| Synonyms: | askew, awry, bent, blemished, bowed, buckled, contorted, crooked, curved, damaged, disfigured, disjointed, distorted, grotesque, ill-made, irregular, malformed, mangled, marred, out of shape, twisted, ugly, unshapely, warped |
| Main Entry: | oblique |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slanting; at an angle |
| Synonyms: | angled, askance, askew, aslant, asymmetrical, awry, bent, cater-cornered, crooked, diagonal, distorted, diverging, inclined, inclining, leaning, on the bias, pitched, pitching, sideways, skew, slanted, sloped, sloping, strained, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, turned, twisted |
| Notes: | oblique means slanting or inclined in direction or course or position - or misleading; opaque means not transmitting or reflecting light - or not clearly understood or expressed |
| Main Entry: | off-center |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wide |
| Synonyms: | adrift, askew, astray, far-off, inaccurate, off the mark, off-course, off-target, stray |
| Main Entry: | sloping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slanting |
| Synonyms: | acclivous, askew, aslant, declivous, downhill, inclined, leaning, oblique, pitched, supine, tilted |
| Antonyms: | level, straight |
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