lopsided

English

WOTD – 29 August 2010

From lop (sense 1) (“to hang loosely”) + side + -ed.

lopsided (comparative more lopsided, superlative most lopsided)

Not even or balanced; not the same on one side as on the other.
Carrying a heavy suitcase, he walked with a lopsided gait.
(figurative) biased; not balanced between points of view

not balanced

Armenian: ծռակող (hy) (cṙakoġ), ծուռկողանի (hy) (cuṙkoġani)
Bulgarian: неуравновесен (bg) (neuravnovesen)
Catalan: desigual (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 倾向一方的 (qīngxiàng yīfāng de), 不平衡的 (bù pínghéng de), 斜倚 (zh) (xiéyǐ), 畸形 (zh) (jīxíng)
Czech: nesouměrný m, nevyvážený m
Dutch: onevenwichtig (nl), scheef (nl)
Finnish: toispuolinen (fi), vino (fi)
French: bancal (fr)
German: schief (de)
Hungarian: féloldalas (hu), felemás (hu)
Irish: aontaobhach, leataobhach
Iu Mien: maaiv
Maori: tipirori, hikuwaru, tipitaha
Plautdietsch: winjsch
Polish: krzywy (pl), nierówny (pl), koślawy (pl), asymetryczny (pl), przekrzywiony
Portuguese: torto (pt), desigual (pt)
Romanian: strâmb (ro) m, oblic (ro) m
Russian: кривобокий (ru) (krivobokij), искривлённый (iskrivljónnyj), наклонённый (naklonjónnyj), накренённый (nakrenjónnyj), (informal, somewhat) скособоченный (ru) (skosobočennyj)
Spanish: desequilibrado (es), desigual (es)
Swedish: skev (sv)
Welsh: unochrog (cy)

biased

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