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Meaning of LOPSIDED

Pronunciation:  'lâp'sIdid

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"
  2. [adj]  out of proportion in shape
 
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 Synonyms: askew, asymmetric, asymmetrical, awry(p), cockeyed, crooked, ill-proportioned, one-sided, skew-whiff, wonky
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Lop"sid`ed\, a. [Lop + side. Cf. {Lobsided}.]
1. Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure;
   as, a lopsided ship. --Marryat.
2. Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; full of idiosyncrasies.
   --J. S. Mill.
 
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 Related Terms: anamorphous, askew, asymmetric, asymmetrical, awry, bent, biased, bowed, canted, cockeyed, contorted, crazy, crooked, crumpled, crunched, deviative, disproportional, disproportionate, distorted, heeling, ill-balanced, irregular, labyrinthine, leaning, listing, nonsymmetric, nonsymmetrical, off-balance, one-sided, overbalanced, sprung, top-heavy, tortuous, twisted, unbalanced, unequal, uneven, unfair, unstable, unsteady, unsymmetric, unsymmetrical, warped
 

 

 

 

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