'askew' definitions:
Definition of 'askew'
From: WordNet
adverb
Turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry" [syn: askew, awry, skew- whiff]
adjective
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" [syn: askew, awry(p), cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff]
Synonyms of 'askew'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- agee,
- agee-jawed,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- anamorphous,
- askance,
- askant,
- askewgee,
- asquint,
- astray,
- asymmetric,
- at fault,
- awry,
- bent,
- beside the mark,
- bowed,
- cam,
- catawampous,
- catawamptious,
- contorted,
- convulsed,
- corrupt,
- crazy,
- crooked,
- crookedly,
- crumpled,
- crunched,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- delusive,
- deranged,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- disarranged,
- discomfited,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dislocated,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- disorganized,
- distorted,
- disturbed,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- fallacious,
- false,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- haywire,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- in disorder,
- irregular,
- labyrinthine,
- lopsided,
- misplaced,
- nonsymmetric,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- on the fritz,
- one-sided,
- 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,
- slaunchways,
- sprung,
- squinting,
- straying,
- tortuous,
- turbid,
- turbulent,
- twisted,
- unfactual,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unsettled,
- unsymmetric,
- untrue,
- upset,
- wamper-jawed,
- warped,
- wide,
- wrong,
- wry,
- yaw-ways