lopsided

English

WOTD – 29 August 2010

Alternative forms

• lop-sided

Etymology

From lop (sense 1) (“to hang loosely”) + side + -ed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒp.saɪ.dəd/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑp.saɪ.dɪd/

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Adjective

lopsided (comparative more lopsided, superlative most lopsided)

1. Not even or balanced; not the same on one side as on the other.

   Carrying a heavy suitcase, he walked with a lopsided gait.

2. (figurative) biased; not balanced between points of view

Related terms

• top-heavy

Translations

not balanced

• Armenian: ծռակող (hy) (cṙakoġ), ծուռկողանի (hy) (cuṙkoġani)
• Bulgarian: неуравновесен (bg) (neuravnovesen)
• Catalan: desigual (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 倾向一方的 (qīngxiàng yīfāng de), 不平衡的 (bù pínghéng de), 斜倚 (zh) (xiéyǐ), 畸形 (zh) (jīxíng)

• Czech: nesouměrný m, nevyvážený m
• Dutch: onevenwichtig (nl), scheef (nl)
• Finnish: toispuolinen (fi), vino (fi)
• French: bancal (fr)
• German: schief (de)
• Hungarian: féloldalas (hu), felemás (hu)
• Irish: aontaobhach, leataobhach
• Iu Mien: maaiv
• Maori: tipirori, hikuwaru, tipitaha
• Plautdietsch: winjsch
• Polish: krzywy (pl), nierówny (pl), koślawy (pl), asymetryczny (pl), przekrzywiony
• Portuguese: torto (pt), desigual (pt)
• Romanian: strâmb (ro) m, oblic (ro) m
• Russian: кривобокий (ru) (krivobokij), искривлённый (iskrivljónnyj), наклонённый (naklonjónnyj), накренённый (nakrenjónnyj), (informal, somewhat) скособоченный (ru) (skosobočennyj)
• Spanish: desequilibrado (es), desigual (es)
• Swedish: skev (sv)
• Welsh: unochrog (cy)

biased

• Czech: předpojatý m, zaujatý m, neobjektivní
• German: einseitig (de)
• Polish: stronniczy (pl), nieobiektywny
• Portuguese: enviesado (pt)

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• displode