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lopsided
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, warpedROGET 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.For further exploring for "lopsided" in Webster Dictionary Online