All catawampus synonyms

adj catawampus

• crooked — If you describe something as crooked, especially something that is usually straight, you mean that it is bent or twisted.
• off-center — not centered; diverging from the exact center.
• awry — If something goes awry, it does not happen in the way it was planned.
• curving — a continuously bending line, without angles.
• meandering — to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course: The stream meandered through the valley.
• sinuous — having many curves, bends, or turns; winding: a sinuous path.
• winding — the act of winding.
• gnarled — (of trees) full of or covered with gnarls; bent; twisted.
• devious — If you describe someone as devious you do not like them because you think they are dishonest and like to keep things secret, often in a complicated way.
• serpentine — of, characteristic of, or resembling a serpent, as in form or movement.
• twisting — a deviation in direction; curve; bend; turn.
• bowed — Something that is bowed is curved.
• rambling — aimlessly wandering.
• deformed — disfigured or misshapen
• deviating — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
• distorted — not truly or completely representing the facts or reality; misrepresented; false: She has a distorted view of life.
• hooked — bent like a hook; hook-shaped.
• spiral — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
• crippled — physically incapacitated
• skewed — to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.
• warped — to bend or twist out of shape, especially from a straight or flat form, as timbers or flooring.
• contorted — twisted out of shape
• askance — with an oblique glance
• bent — Bent is the past tense and past participle of bend.
• cockeyed — If you say that an idea or scheme is cockeyed, you mean that you think it is very unlikely to succeed.
• curved — A curved object has the shape of a curve or has a smoothly bending surface.
• knotted — having knots; knotty.
• lopsided — heavier, larger, or more developed on one side than on the other; unevenly balanced; unsymmetrical.
• oblique — neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
• obliquely — in an oblique manner or direction.
• slanting — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
• twisted — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
• zigzag — a line, course, or progression characterized by sharp turns first to one side and then to the other.
• askant — askance
• aslant — at a slant
• buckled — Buckled shoes have buckles on them, either to fasten them or as decoration.
• crookedly — not straight; bending; curved: a crooked path.
• turned — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• angular — Angular things have shapes that seem to contain a lot of straight lines and sharp points.
• circuitous — A circuitous route is long and complicated rather than simple and direct.
• indirect — not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.
• irregular — without symmetry, even shape, formal arrangement, etc.: an irregular pattern.
• kinky — full of kinks; closely twisted: a kinky wire.
• misshapen — badly shaped; deformed.
• roundabout — circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
• screwy — crazy; nutty: I think you're screwy, refusing an invitation to the governor's dinner.
• snaky — of or relating to snakes.
• topsy-turvy — with the top where the bottom should be; upside down.
• tortuous — full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked: a tortuous path.
• uneven — not level or flat; rough; rugged: The wheels bumped and jolted over the uneven surface.