awry : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: awry	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for awry
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
awry adv away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations" Synonym(s): awry, amiss turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry" Synonym(s): askew, awry, skew-whiff adj 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" Synonym(s): askew, awry(p), cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine" Synonym(s): amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Awry \Awry"\, 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. [bd]Your crown's awry.[b8] --Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air. --Milton. 2. Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely. Or by her charms Draws him awry, enslaved. --Milton. Nothing more awry* from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men. --Milton.