awry

From Middle English awry, awrie, equivalent to a- +‎ wry.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /əˈɹaɪ/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /əˈɹɑɪ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ
• (nonstandard) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ɹi/

awry (comparative more awry, superlative most awry)

1. Obliquely, crookedly; askew.
2. Perversely, improperly.

awry (comparative more awry, superlative most awry)

1. Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.

   Synonym: (mostly UK) wonky

   The frame was awry.

2. (figurative) Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss, off course

   There is something awry with this story.

   • 2021 April 29, Jamie Jackson, “Edinson Cavani and Bruno Fernandes help Manchester United hit Roma for six”, in The Guardian‎:

     It came inside 50 minutes and moments later Cavani should have had a 12th. Pogba and Shaw combined before the left-back’s cross teed up the striker but his radar was awry.

• As an adjective, awry is almost always used as a predicate.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:awry.

• Wray, wary, wray