awry as an adjective: - 1
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as a adverb: - 1
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awry
adjective
1 awry
Turned or twisted toward one side:
— A...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry.
synonyms: askew, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky.
Roget 619:
disastrous,
bad
etc.
649;
awry,
out of joint;
disadvantageous.
Roget 243:
distorted
etc.
v.;
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
etc.
(short)
201;
gaunt
etc.
(thin)
203;
bloated
etc.
194;
scalene;
simous†;
taliped†,
talipedic†.
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2 awry
adverb
1 awry
Away from the correct or expected course:
— Something has gone awry in our plans.
synonym: amiss.
2 awry
Turned or twisted to one side:
— With his necktie twisted awry.
synonyms: askew, skew-whiff.
Moby thesaurus: aberrant, abroad, adrift, afield, agee, agee-jawed, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, aside, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, aslant, asquint, astray, at fault, badly, beside the mark, cam, catawampous, catawamptious, cock-a-hoop, cockeyed, convulsed, corrupt, crooked, crookedly, deceptive, defective, delusive, deranged, deviant, deviational, deviative, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, distorted, disturbed, errant, erring, erroneous, erroneously, fallacious, false, faultful, faultily, faulty, flawed, haywire, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory, in disorder, misplaced, not right, not true, obliquely, off, off the track, on the fritz, 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, slantways, slaunchways, squinting, straying, turbid, turbulent, unfactual, unfavorably, unorthodox, unproved, unsettled, untrue, untruly, upset, wamper-jawed, wide, wrong, wry, yaw-ways ... show more.
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