cockeyed English

Meaning cockeyed meaning

What does cockeyed mean?

cockeyed

— adjective (= awry, skew-whiff) 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

— adjective (= absurd, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous) 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

— adjective (= besotted) very drunk

Synonyms cockeyed synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as cockeyed?

cockeyed English » English

askew

wonky

awry

ridiculous

oblique

nonsensical

lopsided

crooked

absurd

wry

wet

tight

stiff

squint-eyed

squiffy

sozzled

soused

soaked

smashed

sloshed

slopped

skew-whiff

skew

preposterous

plastered

pixilated

pissed

pie-eyed

ludicrous

loaded

laughable

idiotic

fuddled

foolish

derisory

cross-eyed

crocked

blotto

blind drunk

besotted

witless

wily

warped

underhanded

underhand

transverse

tortuous

strabismic

squinty

squinter