Word Meanings - AWRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. 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. "Your crown's awry." Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand

Additional info about word: AWRY

1. 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. "Your crown's awry." Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air. Milton. 2. Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely. Or by her charms Draws him awry, enslaved. Milton. Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AWRY)

• Crooked
• Bent
• incurved
• angular
• deformed
• bowed
• disfigured
• turned
• curved
• awry
• anfractuous
• tortuous
• underhanded
• Wrong
• Unfit
• unsuitable
• improper
• mistaken
• incorrect
• erroneous
• unjust
• illegal
• inequitable
• immoral
• injurious

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