lopsided

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: lop=sid=ed

CIDE DICTIONARY

lopsided, a. [Lop + side. Cf. Lobsided.].

•  Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure; as, a lopsided ship.  Marryat.  [1913 Webster]
•  Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; having much more on one side than the other; -- also used metaphorically; as, a lopsided victory.  [1913 Webster]
•  Full of idiosyncrasies.  J. S. Mill.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lopsided, adj. with one side lower or smaller than the other; unevenly balanced.

Derivative

lopsidedly adv. lopsidedness n.

Etymology

LOP(2) + SIDE

THESAURUS

lopsided

anamorphous, askew, asymmetric, asymmetrical, awry, bent, biased, bowed, canted, cockeyed, contorted, crazy, crooked, crumpled, crunched, deviative, disproportional, disproportionate, distorted, heeling, ill-balanced, irregular, labyrinthine, leaning, listing, nonsymmetric, nonsymmetrical, off-balance, one-sided, overbalanced, sprung, top-heavy, tortuous, twisted, unbalanced, unequal, uneven, unfair, unstable, unsteady, unsymmetric, unsymmetrical, warped

ROGET THESAURUS

lopsided

Inequality

N inequality, disparity, imparity, odds, difference, unevenness, inclination of the balance, partiality, bias, weight, shortcoming, casting weight, make-weight, superiority, inferiority, inequation, unequal, uneven, disparate, partial, unbalanced, overbalanced, top-heavy, lopsided, biased, skewed, disquiparant, haud passibus aequis.