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(əraɪ)
1. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE]
If something goes awry, it does not happen in the way it was planned.
She was in a fury over a plan that had gone awry.
2. graded adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE]
If something is awry, it is not in its normal or proper position.
[written]
His dark hair was all awry.
Synonyms: askew, twisted, crooked, to one side More Synonyms of awry
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awry in British English

(əˈraɪ)
adverb, adjective (postpositive)
1. 
with a slant or twist to one side; askew
2. 
away from the appropriate or right course; amiss
Word origin
C14 on wry; see a-2, wry

awry in American English

(əˈraɪ)
adverb, adjective
1. 
with a twist to a side; not straight; askew
2. 
wrong; amiss
our plans went awry
Word origin
ME a wrie: see a-1 & wry

Examples of 'awry' in a sentence
awry

This was no craft project gone awry.
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
Needless to say, it goes awry.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
His departure is more than just a story of one individual's ambition gone awry.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Play your cards close to your chest in case things go awry.
The Sun (2015)
When things go badly awry the people who feel the heat should be the bosses.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Its forecasts for economic growth and inflation have gone seriously awry in recent years.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Something has plainly gone horribly awry in their domestic politics and the structure of their national economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The figures suggest that something is awry.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
His job of protecting a rich family soon goes awry.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Gothic masterpiece to serve as a satire of modern celebrity gone horribly awry.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
 Something is clearly awry in our culture.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He cannot afford these reforms to go awry.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
But it is a world in which something is awry.
Marcus J. Borg READING THE BIBLE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally. (2001)
But this instinct has gone awry.
Christianity Today (2000)
In my experience, it generally takes two weeks for things to go badly awry.
Jan Fennell, Foreword by Monty Roberts THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend (2002)
People's sense of value and money seems to be seriously awry.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
When something goes awry, somebody has to be held to account.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
 Something must be awry at the bank, if he has to rely on that old chestnut.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
 Something is definitely awry when we arrive in a third town, four miles further southeast.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It was only after their father's death that the relationship between the two brothers began to go badly awry.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Crucially, they also have access to reliable engineers and supply lines for parts when something goes more badly awry.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
If those arrangements spectacularly go awry, they can't expect to hide behind a cloak of deception.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
One possibility, he said, was that his judgment had gone awry because of the pressure of going public.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
More than most bowlers, if any part of that mechanical operation is out of sync, his bowling goes awry.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
When society reaches a stage that it gets its kicks by worrying about other people's builders, something has gone badly awry.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Something is going seriously awry when, in a quarter with a general election, the flagship news programme goes down and not up.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
(adverb) 
Definition
with a twist to one side
He was concerned that his hair might go awry.
Synonyms
askew
Some of the doors hung askew.
to one side
off course
out of line
obliquely
unevenly
off-centre
cockeyed (informal)
out of true
crookedly
skew-whiff (informal)
(adjective) 
Definition
with a twist to one side
His dark hair was all awry.
Synonyms
askew
She stood there, hat askew.
twisted
crooked
He gave her a crooked grin.
to one side
uneven
a flat head accentuated by a short, uneven crew-cut
off course
out of line
asymmetrical
asymmetrical shapes
off-centre
cockeyed (informal)
Dusty photographs were hanging at cockeyed angles on the walls.
misaligned
out of true
skew-whiff (informal)
(adverb) 
Definition
amiss or faulty
a plan that had gone awry
Synonyms
wrong
Where did we go wrong with our friendship?
amiss

Additional synonyms

in the sense of asymmetrical
asymmetrical shapes
Synonyms
uneven,
odd,
unbalanced,
lopsided,
out of true,
not parallel
in the sense of cockeyed
Definition
crooked or askew
Dusty photographs were hanging at cockeyed angles on the walls.
Synonyms
crooked,
squint (informal),
awry,
lopsided,
askew,
asymmetrical,
skewwhiff (British, informal)
in the sense of crooked
Definition
set at an angle
He gave her a crooked grin.
Synonyms
at an angle,
angled,
tilted,
to one side,
uneven,
slanted,
slanting,
squint,
awry,
lopsided,
askew,
asymmetric,
off-centre,
skewwhiff (British, informal),
unsymmetrical

Nearby words of
awry

  • awkward
  • awkwardness
  • awning
  • awry
  • axe
  • axiom
  • axiomatic

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