lopsided
19
4.3
- adjective
- /ˈlɑːpˌsaɪdɪd/
:
desigual
- The cake looked a bit lopsided after I added too much frosting on one side.
- the most lopsided
Is this is the floor a little bit lopsided?
- Is this is the floor a little bit lopsided?
- Because apologizing is a humbling thing and it creates it creates A lopsided balance in that dynamic.
- At the moment mine is a little lopsided, so I'm going to take one and pop it in this side.
- The reasons for this lopsided market state are no mystery, rather they are totally explainable employment.
- So therefore I get lopsided things and cakes that stick to pans.
- This is, this should be a lot more lopsided, quite honestly, if people were trusting the media, People know something's wrong here.
Examples
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Charlotte could just make out two men filleting fleshy fish on a lopsided wooden table.
Fiction book (1998) -
I think it's a lopsided way of being, an obsessive and off balance way of perceiving and being in the world.
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And leave this lopsided house.
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At the moment mine is a little lopsided, so I'm going to take one and pop it in this side.
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I carried her inside, the lopsided sack of her against me.
Fiction book (1998) -
From the first moment I saw you walking by, wearing that... awful hat, and carrying that lopsided suitcase.
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When he smiled, which was often, his mouth had a slightly lopsided appearance.
Fiction book (1991) -
The sunlight coming through the window made a lopsided rectangle on the floor.
Fiction book (1999) -
Byron looks out the window, a lopsided grin on his face, enjoying the result.
Fiction book (1997) -
Bassam, leaning on the bar, watched them approach with a lopsided grin.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
36
3.6
Unsteady and likely to move from side to side
18
6.1
Having parts that are not the same size or shape
14
3.8
Not steady in position, health, or feeling
13
6.0
Not straight or level and turned to one side
11
6.1
Having parts that are not the same on both sides
8
4.6
Not even in the way parts or people are placed
7
7.5
Not straight or level and a little strange
6
7.7
Not steady or straight and likely to wobble
5
4.7
Not straight or level and often wrong because of a personal view
2
6.8
Not in the correct position and turned to one side
1
7.6
Tilted to one side and not straight
1
4.4
Leaning to one side and not level
Different on each side
Not the same on both sides of a middle line
Leaning to one side and not straight, like a picture on a wall
Not upright and slanting to one side
Not straight or level but turned a little to one side
Antonyms
25
4.1
A shape or object that has matching parts on both sides when you cut it down the middle
Compounds
How Uneven
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lopsided is made from lop and side, where lop suggests cutting off or hanging down ('to cut off' or 'to hang down'), so one side looks shorter or lower than the other. That's why lopsided means not even or balanced.