Awry
[ə'raɪ]
Definition
(adv.) away from the correct or expected course; 'something has gone awry in our plans'; 'something went badly amiss in the preparations'.
Checked by Leroy--From WordNet
Definition
(adv. & a.) Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry.
(adv. & a.) Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely.
Editor: Warren
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. [1]. Obliquely, asquint, askance.[2]. Perversely, wrong.
a. Oblique, slanting, distorted, crooked, wry.
Typist: Mabel
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Crooked, aslant, askew, atwist, bent, carved, distorted, twisted, wrong
ANT:Right, straight, true, direct
Inputed by Gustav
Definition
adj. twisted to one side: distorted crooked: wrong: perverse.—adv. unevenly: perversely: erroneously.—To look awry to look askance at anything; To walk awry to go wrong.
Editor: Maris
Examples
- You see me now with my back like a camel and my ribs all awry, but there was a time when Corporal Henry Wood was the smartest man in the 117th foot. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Here was Alexander in many ways gifted above any man of his time, and he was vain, suspicious, and passionate, with a mind set awry by his mother. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My principles were never trained, Jane: they may have grown a little awry for want of attention. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Editor: Maris