wonky
Adjective Satellite
- turned or twisted toward one side; - G.K.Chesterton
- inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
- "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"
Adj
- Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
- Feeble, shaky or rickety.
- Suffering from intermittent bugs.
- Generally incorrect.
- Technically worded, in the style of jargon.
Noun
- A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
Adjective
- Crooked, off-center, or unstable; not straight.
Examples
- His strategy felt WONKY, but it unexpectedly led to a high-scoring word in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English wancol (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).
Synonyms
askew, awry, cockeyed, lopsided, rickety, shaky, skew-whiff, wobbly, broken, buggy, misaligned
Scrabble Score: 15
wonky: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordwonky: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wonky: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary