cockeyedadjective
uk/ˌkɒkˈaɪd/us/ˌkɑːkˈaɪd/cockeyed adjective (SLOPING)
informal not straight, but sloping to one side:
Would you straighten that picture over there? - It's a bit cockeyed.
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Slanting, sloping, leaning, tilting
- angle
- askew
- bank
- cocked
- fall away
- gentle
- oblique
- pitch
- pitched
- raked
- roll
- shelve
- skew
- skew-whiff
- slanted
- slope
- steep
- steepen
- tip (sth/sb) over
- yaw
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cockeyed adjective (STUPID)
used to describe a plan or idea that is stupid, not suitable, or not likely to be successful:
The government has dreamed up some cockeyed scheme for getting unemployed youngsters back into work.
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Stupid and silly
- (as) thick as two short planks idiom
- absurd
- adolescent
- against your better judgment idiom
- asinine
- be crazy about sb/sth idiom
- certifiable
- dozy
- drink, laugh, etc. yourself silly idiom
- drivel
- dumb
- empty-headed
- gibber
- loony
- loopy
- lumpen
- lumpish
- madcap
- slow
- wrongheaded
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cockeyed adjective (DRUNK)
mainly US old-fashioned informal having drunk too much alcohol
Synonym
drunk
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Drunkenness & sobriety
- a drop too much (to drink) idiom
- alcoholic
- alcoholism
- battered
- be as high as a kite idiom
- beer goggles
- binge drinking
- blasted
- bombed
- inebriated
- influence
- intoxicate
- intoxicated
- intoxicating
- sober (sb) up
- sobriety
- sot
- soused
- sozzled
- whacked
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