Adjacent Words

cockeyed definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff" [syn: askew, awry, cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff]
2: incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous]
3: very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1821 1. having a cockeye 2. a. askew, awry b. slightly crazy ; topsy-turvy <a cockeyed scheme> c. drunk 1a • cockeyedly adverb • cockeyedness noun

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also cock-eyed 1. If you say that an idea or scheme is cockeyed, you mean that you think it is very unlikely to succeed. She has some cockeyed delusions about becoming a pop star. ADJ 2. If something is cockeyed, it looks wrong because it is not in a level or straight position. ...dusty photographs hanging at cockeyed angles on the walls. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

afflicted, agee, agee-jawed, amiss, anamorphous, apish, asinine, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, asymmetric, awry, batty, befooled, beguiled, bent, besotted, boiled, bombed, boozy, bowed, brainless, buffoonish, bug-eyed, cam, canned, catawampous, catawamptious, cock-a-hoop, cockeyed drunk, contorted, convulsed, crazy, credulous, crocked, crocko, crooked, crookedly, cross-eyed, crumpled, crunched, daffy, daft, dazed, deranged, deviative, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, disguised, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, distorted, disturbed, dizzy, doting, drunk, dumb, elevated, fatuitous, fatuous, flaky, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fried, fuddled, futile, gaga, glare-eyed, goofy, gulled, half-seas over, haywire, high, idiotic, illuminated, imbecile, in disorder, inane, inebriated, inept, infatuated, insane, irregular, kooky, labyrinthine, lit, lit up, loaded, loony, lopsided, lubricated, lushy, mad, maudlin, misplaced, monocular, moon-eyed, moronic, muddled, muzzy, nonsymmetric, nutty, oiled, on the fritz, one-eyed, one-sided, organized, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, perturbed, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, pixilated, plastered, polluted, popeyed, potted, raddled, roily, sappy, saucer-eyed, screwy, senseless, sentimental, shellacked, shuffled, silly, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, skunk-drunk, slaunchways, smashed, soaked, soused, sprung, squiffy, squinting, stewed, stinko, stupid, swacked, swivel-eyed, tanked, thoughtless, tight, tortuous, turbid, turbulent, twisted, unsettled, unsymmetric, upset, wacky, walleyed, wamper-jawed, warped, wet, witless, wry, yaw-ways