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Awry

Awry Meaning & Definition
Awry Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Awry?

[adv] away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations"
[adv] turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Awry: amiss | askew | skew-whiff

Related Terms | Find terms related to Awry: aberrant | abroad | adrift | afield | agee | agee-jawed | all abroad | all off | all wrong | amiss | aside | askance | askant | askew | askewgee | aslant | asquint | astray | at fault | badly | beside the mark | cam | catawampous | catawamptious | cock-a-hoop | cockeyed | convulsed | corrupt | crooked | crookedly | deceptive | defective | delusive | deranged | deviant | deviational | deviative | disarranged | discomfited | discomposed | disconcerted | dislocated | disordered | disorderly | disorganized | distorted | disturbed | errant | erring | erroneous | erroneously | fallacious | false | faultful | faultily | faulty | flawed | haywire | heretical | heterodox | illogical | illusory | in disorder | misplaced | not right | not true | obliquely | off | off the track | on the fritz | 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 | skewed | skew-jawed | slantways | slaunchways | squinting | straying | turbid | turbulent | unfactual | unfavorably | unorthodox | unproved | unsettled | untrue | untruly | upset | wamper-jawed | wide | wrong | wry | yaw-ways

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Awry In Webster's Dictionary

\A*wry"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + wry.] 1. Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry. ``Your crown's awry.'' --Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air. --Milton. 2. Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely. Or by her charms Draws him awry, enslaved. --Milton. Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men. --Milton.

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