lopsided

English

WOTD – 29 August 2010

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒp.saɪ.dəd/
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(US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑp.saɪ.dɪd/
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Adjective

lopsided (comparative more lopsided, superlative most lopsided)

Not even or balanced; not the same on one side as on the other.
Carrying a heavy suitcase, he walked with a lopsided gait.

Related terms

top-heavy

Translations

not balanced

Armenian: ծռակող (hy) (cṙakoł), ծուռկողանի (hy) (cuṙkołani)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 倾向一方的 (qīngxiàng yīfāng de), 不平衡的 (bù pínghéng de), 斜倚 (zh) (xiéyǐ), 畸形 (zh) (jīxíng)
Czech: nesouměrný
Dutch: onevenwichtig (nl), scheef (nl)
Finnish: toispuolinen (fi), vino (fi)
French: bancal (fr)
German: einseitig (de), schief (de)

Hungarian: féloldalas (hu), felemás (hu)
Maori: tipirori, hikuwaru, tipitaha
Portuguese: torto (pt), desigual (pt)
Romanian: strâmb (ro) m, oblic (ro) m
Russian: кривобокий (ru) (krivobokij), искривлённый (ru) (iskrivljónnyj), наклонённый (ru) (naklonjónnyj), накренённый (ru) (nakrenjónnyj), (informal, somewhat) скособоченный (ru) (skosobočennyj)
Spanish: desequilibrado (es) m, desigual (es)
Swedish: skev (sv)

Anagrams

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