Ajar

/əˈd͡ʒɑː/ · adverb

Meaning

Slightly turned or opened..

Definitions by Sense

1. Slightly turned or opened.
2. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
3. (archaic) Out of harmony.
4. Being at variance or in contradiction to something.
5. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.

Example Sentences

The door was standing ajar.

The door is ajar.

I know—for Death, who comes for me From regions of the blest afar, Where there is nothing to deceive, Hath left his iron gate ajar, […]

A plainclothes detective knocked on a slightly ajarred door.

Yes, and the door also lops off stairs leading to a landing on whose landing is another door on whose hinges much of this story ajars, if it hasn't jarred too much already.

Just as the gates fully ajarred themselves, the Lamborghini soared through them, and out into the freedom of the poorly defined road.

There is a sort of unexpressed concern, / A kind of shock that sets one's heart ajar […].

It clean deafened the two of us, and set all the crockery ware ajarring ; and when the neighbours heard it they came running into the street to see who was getting hurt.

Synonyms for ajar

Antonyms for ajar

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Word Forms

• achar
• more ajar
• most ajar
• ajars
• ajarring
• ajarred

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