Wonky

Quick meaning: Wonky is an adjective meaning Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.

Meaning

Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.

More Meanings

1. (informal, computing) Suffering from intermittent bugs.
2. (informal) Generally incorrect.
3. (music) A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
4. Technically worded, in the style of jargon.
5. Technical in nature, difficult for non-specialists to understand.
6. (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) Feeble, shaky or rickety.

Example Sentences

Who's this gimp with a wonky eye / I don't know but his lips are dry

By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]

It seemed likely that he would need First Aid when those wonky steps yielded, at length, to the well-known law of gravitation.

McCain's message, while similar in content and equally as valid, is lost in the minutiae of “'high-risk' pools” and wonky jargon.

Word Forms

• wonkier
• wonkiest

Synonyms for wonky

Depending on context, synonyms include awry, misaligned, skew-whiff, rickety, buggy, broken.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lopsided, rickety, shaky, wobbly, awry, askew.

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