skew
skew is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as adverb, adjective, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Awry; obliquely; askew. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adverb. Awry; obliquely; askew.
- adjective. Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.
- noun. A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
- intransitive verb. To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
- intransitive verb. To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
- intransitive verb. To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- adverb. To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- adverb. To throw or hurl obliquely.
- verb. turn or place at an angle
"the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed"
- adjective. having an oblique or slanting direction or position
"the picture was skew"
Synonyms
Common word forms
skews, skewed, skewer, skewly, skewing, skewness
Words from these letters
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