English
WOTD – 29 August 2010
Etymology
From lop (“to hang loosely”) + side + -ed.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɒp.saɪ.dəd/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈlɑp.saɪ.dɪd/
Adjective
lopsided (comparative more lopsided, superlative most lopsided)
- Not even or balanced; not the same on one side as on the other.
- (figurative) biased; not balanced between points of view
Derived terms
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), асимметричный (ru) (asimmetričnyj)
- Spanish: desequilibrado (es), desigual (es), chueco (es)
- Swedish: skev (sv)
- Welsh: unochrog (cy)
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