lopsided
/lɒpˈsʌɪdɪd
/adjective
With one side lower or smaller than the other: a lopsided grin...
- He kept them there just a second too long before dropping them to his sides with a lopsided grin.
- She imagines his brown hair spiky and lopsided, like the last time she saw him.
- She caught sight of the old tyre-swing hanging lopsided from an outstretched branch.
Synonyms
asymmetrical, unsymmetrical, uneven, unevenly balanced, unbalanced, off-balance, off-centre, unequal, askew, skew, skewed, squint, tilted, tilting, crooked, sloping, slanted, aslant, one-sided, out of true, out of line, to one side, awry
informal skew-whiff, cock-eyed
Derivatives
lopsidedly
/ adverb ...- First, the other side has a huge advantage in money, incumbency and a constituency that benefits lopsidedly from the unrepresentative electoral college and senate.
- I tilted my head to one side and smiling lopsidedly said, ‘Do you know what I think?’
- ‘You're forgiven,’ I drawled, grinning lopsidedly.
lopsidedness
- We have a lopsidedness in that the Scottish Executive is responsible for spending, but not for tax-raising.
- Depriving the farmers from agriculture has created an avalanche of problems like unemployment, scarcity of food, starvation death, diseases and a total lopsidedness in the growth of the economy.
- There is indeed a lopsidedness to much refereeing these days whereby players can receive red cards for relatively innocuous incidents yet those that cause injury often don't receive the punishment they deserve.
Origin
Early 18th century: from lop2 + side + -ed1.
Rhymes
- allobarbital
- Winona
- win on points
- win (or earn) one's spurs
- win or lose
- winsome
- winsomely
- winsomeness
- Winston-Salem
- winter
- winter aconite
- winterberry
- winterbourne
- winter cherry
- winter count
- winter creeper
- winter cress
- winterer
- winter flounder
- winter garden
- wintergreen
- Winterhalter, Franz Xavier
- Winter Haven
- winter heliotrope
- winterise