Lopsided

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lopsided \Lop"sid`ed\, a. [Lop + side. Cf. {Lobsided}.]
     1. Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure;
        as, a lopsided ship. --Marryat.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; having much more on one


        side than the other; -- also used metaphorically; as, a
        lopsided victory.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     3. Full of idiosyncrasies. --J. S. Mill.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lopsided
       adj 1: out of proportion in shape [syn: {ill-proportioned}, {one-sided}]
       2: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a
          gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig
          was, as the British say, skew-whiff" [syn: {askew}, {awry(p)},
           {cockeyed}, {wonky}, {skew-whiff}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "lopsided":
     anamorphous, askew, asymmetric, asymmetrical, awry, bent, biased,
     bowed, canted, cockeyed, contorted, crazy, crooked, crumpled,
     crunched, deviative, disproportional, disproportionate, distorted,
     heeling, ill-balanced, irregular, labyrinthine, leaning, listing,
     nonsymmetric, nonsymmetrical, off-balance, one-sided, overbalanced,
     sprung, top-heavy, tortuous, twisted, unbalanced, unequal, uneven,
     unfair, unstable, unsteady, unsymmetric, unsymmetrical, warped