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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. turned or twisted toward one side;
- Example: "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton
- Example: "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"
[syn: askew, awry(p), cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff]

2. not functioning properly;
- Example: "something is amiss"
- Example: "has gone completely haywire"
- Example: "something is wrong with the engine"
[syn: amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)]


ADVERB (2)

1. away from the correct or expected course;
- Example: "something has gone awry in our plans"
- Example: "something went badly amiss in the preparations"
[syn: awry, amiss]

2. turned or twisted to one side;
- Example: "rugs lying askew"
- Example: "with his necktie twisted awry"
[syn: askew, awry, skew-whiff]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Awry \A*wry"\ ([.a]*r[imac]"), adv. & a. [Pref. a- + wry.]
   1. Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or
      true direction, or position; out of the right course;
      distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to
      glance awry. "Your crown's awry." --Shak.
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            Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry.
            Into the devious air.                 --Milton.
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   2. Aside from the line of truth, or right reason;
      unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely.
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            Or by her charms
            Draws him awry, enslaved.             --Milton.
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            Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature
            than that a woman should give laws to men. --Milton.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

awry
    adv 1: away from the correct or expected course; "something has
           gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in
           the preparations" [syn: awry, amiss]
    2: turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his
       necktie twisted awry" [syn: askew, awry, skew-whiff]
    adj 1: 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, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff]
    2: not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone
       completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
       [syn: amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)]