off-kilter
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7.5
- adjective
- /ɔfˈkɪltər/
- Informal
:
desajustado
- The painting was intentionally created to appear off-kilter, giving it a unique and artistic flair.
- slightly off-kilter
- a bit off-kilter
- feel off-kilter
Again, it's just, it's just off kilter from reality.
- Again, it's just, it's just off kilter from reality.
- During these transitional periods, you will find yourself a bit off kilter or off balance.
- A storyteller is somebody that has a interesting, slightly off kilter view of the world.
- And every time we try to make it clearer, it gets off kilter.
- It didn't sound right, like it just it felt off kilter.
- Obviously the parents are a little off kilter wherever they are right now, you know, Mexico wherever.
- And I had friends that were noticing things that were a little off kilter.
- So I just always felt a little bit behind and like I was off, off kilter a bit.
- He was, you know, there would be times where the communication would be off kilter.
- If Donald Trump gets too off kilter and starts lashing out too much, it's going to look bad.
- It's like absolutely everything off kilter.
- He comes across as a bit energized and slightly off kilter in that way that a lot of Americans do, but basically normal.
Examples
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With their intricately odd designs and careful, off-kilter music, their vital characters and volatile silences, the poems have a hard-won, homemade fatedness to them.
Academic text (2010) -
The financial services industry got way out of kilter with the rest of the economy.
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But here, the view seemed, at least to Adams, slightly off-kilter, out of alignment.
Fiction book (1997) -
Among these various feelings, you feel sort of off kilter when you haven't experienced some of them.
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For kids with an irreverent and off-kilter sense of humor, this book is a delight.
Blog text (20) -
One of the shams had gotten stuck between the drum and the frame, causing the machine to go off-kilter.
Fiction book (2001) -
Instead, Malyevich placed the form slightly off kilter, giving it the appearance of movement and the white surrounding it a living, vibrating quality.
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Publishers won't take risks on really off-kilter stuff (though smaller publishers may).
Blog text (31) -
After the storm, the tree in the front yard looked a little off-kilter with its branches leaning to one side.
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His off-kilter sense of humor often caught his friends by surprise during their gatherings.
Synonyms
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2.3
Not smooth or level, with parts higher and lower
34
4.0
Feeling unsteady in body or mind after something sudden
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7.5
Not working properly or behaving in the usual way
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4.3
Uneven because one side is lower, smaller, or heavier
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3.8
Not steady in position, health, or feeling
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6.0
Not straight or level and turned to one side
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4.1
Not exactly in the center, slightly to one side
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7.7
Not steady or straight and likely to wobble
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7.7
Not working correctly and not in balance
Tilted or not in the right position
Placed away from the middle so it sits a little to one side
Not placed in the middle, making it off-center
Not in agreement or not in a straight line with something else
Uneven so parts do not fit or move smoothly
Not the same on both sides in shape or design
Not the same on both sides of a middle line
Different on each side
Not steady in your body or feelings
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word off-kilter joins off ('not') and kilter, an old word that meant 'order' or 'balance'. So off-kilter literally means 'not in order', like off-balance, and gives the image of something tilted, strange, or a little out of balance.