Dictionary Entry
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.
4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1adverb
Awry; obliquely; askew.
- 2adjective
Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.
- 3noun
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.
- 4intransitive verb
To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
- 5intransitive verb
To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
- 6intransitive verb
To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- 7adverb
To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
- 8adverb
To throw or hurl obliquely.
- 9verb
turn or place at an angle
"the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed"
- 10adjective
having an oblique or slanting direction or position
"the picture was skew"
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