English > crooked: 4 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned. |
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| Examples | - "crooked country roads"
- "crooked teeth"
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| Attribute of | shape, form, configuration, contour, conformation | Any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) |
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| Narrower | akimbo | (used of arms and legs) bent outward with the joint away from the body |
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| anfractuous | Full of twists and turns |
| aquiline, hooked | curved down like an eagle's beak |
| askew, awry, cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff | Turned or twisted toward one side |
| contorted, writhed, writhen | Twisted (especially as in pain or struggle / struggle / struggle) |
| deflective, refractive | capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave) |
| geniculate | bent at a sharp angle |
| gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty, knobbed | Used of old persons or old trees |
| malposed | Characterized by malposition |
| reflexed | (of leaves) bent downward and outward more than 90 degrees |
| squiggly | wavy and twisting |
| tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding, voluminous | marked by repeated turns and bends |
| warped | Used especially of timbers or boards |
| windblown | Used especially of trees |
| wry | bent to one side |
| zigzag, zig-zag | Having short sharp turns or angles |
| See also | coiled | curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals) |
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| indirect | not direct in spatial dimension |
| Opposite | straight | Having no deviations |
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| Nouns | crookedness | having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles |
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| Adverbs | crookedly | in a crooked lopsided manner |
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