He wore his hat askew.
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Askew
//əˈskju//
Synonyms for "askew" (152 found)
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Closest matches (31)
awryaberrantabroadadriftageeagee-jawedall abroadall offall wrongamissanamorphousasideaskanceaskantaskewgeeasquintastrayasymmetricasymmetricalat fault
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Adverb(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Adverb(1 words)
Strong matches (45)
Related words (76)
hereticalheterodoxillogicalillusoryin disorderirregularlabyrinthinelopsidedmisplacednonsensicalnonsymmetricnot rightnot trueobliqueoffoff the trackon the fritzone sidedone-sidedout
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out of gearout of jointout of kelterout of kilterout of orderout of placeout of tuneout of whackpeccantperturbedperversepervertedroilyself-contradictoryshuffledskewskew whiffskew-jawedskewedslaunchwayssprungsquintingstrayingtortuousturbidturbulenttwistedunfactualunorthodoxunprovedunsettledunsymmetricunsymmetricaluntrueupsetwamper-jawedwarpedwidewrongwryyaw-ways
Adjective(10 words)
Adjective(3 words)
Adverb(1 words)
Adverb(1 words)
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7 entriessimilar
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45 translations across 14 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 歪 adj (turned or twisted to one side)
Czech
3 entries- křivý adj (turned or twisted to one side)
- šikmý adj (turned or twisted to one side)
- nakřivo adv (tilted to one side)
Dutch
1 entries- scheef adj (turned or twisted to one side)
Finnish
4 entries- vino adj (turned or twisted to one side)
- kallellaan adv (tilted to one side)
- kieroon adv (with disapproval)
- vinossa adv (tilted to one side)
French
4 entries- de guingois adj (turned or twisted to one side)
- de travers adj (turned or twisted to one side)
- de traviole adj (turned or twisted to one side)
- incliné adj (turned or twisted to one side)
German
4 entries- quer adj (turned or twisted to one side)
- schief adj (turned or twisted to one side)
- schräg adj (turned or twisted to one side)
- ungünstig adj (untoward, unfavourable)
Hebrew
1 entries- על העוקם adj (turned or twisted to one side)
Hungarian
4 entries- csálé adj (turned or twisted to one side)
- ferde adj (turned or twisted to one side)
- félrecsúszott adj (turned or twisted to one side)
- rézsútos adj (turned or twisted to one side)
Italian
1 entries- obliquo adj (turned or twisted to one side)
Latin
1 entries- līmus adj (turned or twisted to one side)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- اكری adj (turned or twisted to one side)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- winjsch adj (turned or twisted to one side)
Portuguese
1 entries- torto adj (turned or twisted to one side)
Spanish
2 entries- oblicuo adj (turned or twisted to one side)
- torcido adj (turned or twisted to one side)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The wood was kindled, the flames arose, and a mouldering heap of ashes was soon all that remained of Mrs Askew and her fellow martyrs.
Source: tatoeba (909146)
The table is askew, it's likely going to turn over soon.
Source: tatoeba (2904434)
Our plan has gone askew.
Source: tatoeba (4366088)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.