Qualities

Synonyms for awry

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineQualities

turned or twisted toward one side

The picture on the wall was slightly awry.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

wonky

Same sentence, swapped: The picture on the wall was slightly wonky.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for awry as it is used in the sentence above.

haywire
disorganized
unsettled

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Closest first: other qualities words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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