haywire
1
7.5
- adjective
- /ˈheɪˌwaɪər/
- Informal
:
descompuesto
- Sam shows his firefighting talent when Pontypandy's holiday lighting competition goes haywire.
- go haywire
- completely haywire
- totally haywire
Do you see it going just complete haywire if he gets re elected?
- Do you see it going just complete haywire if he gets re elected?
- And when they meet in person, things just go haywire from there.
- So pancreatitis is basically where your pancreas just goes haywire as a result of taking these drugs.
- For most of the book, something happens that makes the plot just go haywire, and it's very confusing.
- But from that point, from that moment on, my life went haywire.
- Well, that's when everything goes haywire.
- So I I think this is a great demonstration of AI hype gone kind of haywire.
- When that stopped, the revenue stopped and then things went haywire, you know, and so glad we weren't an MTV band.
- So I now have a home that lost its alpha male and we have three other cats and the whole system went haywire.
- Yeah, hunger, your metabolism goes haywire and you get super hungry and you'll continue to lose weight.
- We our skin would start to crack, we'd get infections, we'd be unable to absorb food, our immune systems would go haywire.
- If you take out one of the main ingredients to the female body's optimal health, of course everything is going to go haywire.
- And when the moral reasoning gets screwed up, when something goes haywire and process.
Examples
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If he gets even a slight chill, his temperature goes haywire.
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The picture goes completely haywire again.
Fiction book (2001) -
I am not pleased with the way this whole thing... has gone completely haywire.
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For most of the book, something happens that makes the plot just go haywire, and it's very confusing.
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When a ballot has more than two choices, our current electoral system goes haywire.
Blog text (23) -
When the computer overheated, it started to function haywire, causing many files to be lost.
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After the power surge, several devices in the house began to act haywire, turning on and off unpredictably.
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Following the software update, the app went haywire, crashing multiple times during use.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Not working correctly
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6.8
Not happening as planned and causing trouble
30
7.5
Not working properly or behaving in the usual way
27
5.8
Not correct and not working as it should be
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7.2
Not working because it is broken
Not working properly so a machine or system cannot work as it should
Antonyms
How Malfunctioning
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The adjective haywire for machines or plans comes from the same farm wire used for quick, rough fixes; because things held together with haywire could fail or get messy, we say a system or plan 'went haywire' when it stops working or goes out of control.