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cockeyed

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Foolish; ridiculous; absurd.
  • adjective Askew; crooked.
  • adjective Intoxicated; drunk.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a squinting eye; cross-eyed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective US Having both eyes oriented inward.
  • adjective US Crooked or askew.
  • adjective US, informal Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people.
  • adjective Alternative spelling of cock-eyed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective very drunk
  • adjective turned or twisted toward one side
  • adjective incongruous;inviting ridicule

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Examples

  • Pausing briefly to ask oneself how the word "cockeyed" translates into Berlin vernacular, one next inquires how the theory could have been more preposterous than at first appeared.

    NYT > Home Page By CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS 2011

  • Pausing briefly to ask oneself how the word "cockeyed" translates into Berlin vernacular, one next inquires how the theory could have been more preposterous than at first appeared.

    NYT > Home Page By CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS 2011

  • And if Glenn Beck and his "cockeyed" interpretations of the Washington power grabbers scare you, it proves you are a thinking person, and maybe you need to be scared - of what is about to change everything we all believed this country was about.

    naplesnews.com Stories 2010

  • Actress/director Penny Marshall is laughing off reports she's battling cancer, insisting the media gets things "cockeyed" at times.

    News Channel 9: Local News 2009

  • Actress/director Penny Marshall is laughing off reports she's battling cancer, insisting the media gets things "cockeyed" at times.

    unknown title 2009

  • Ted Shane was employed by Judge magazine, for which I made both cartoons and "cockeyed" crosswords in the 1930s.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3 1980

  • Jesse Dylan Tom Waits On his 17th studio album, his first collection of new material in seven years, Tom Waits still has cockeyed metaphors to burn.

    The Short List 2011

  • If he needs to remind himself of something later in the day, before he gets out of the car he turns the rearview mirror cockeyed.

    Hints From Heloise washingtonpost.com 2010

  • Craig is played by Keir Gilchrist, from "United States of Tara"; he's got a sweet spirit and a cockeyed Paul Simon smile.

    A Grownup Look at Lennon as a 'Boy' Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • He added volume at the top of the foot and placed heels at cockeyed angles to soles.

    From Sci-Fi Heels to Bows: a Shoe Maverick Christina Binkley 2011

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synonyms (177)

Words with the same meaning

  1. afflicted
  2. agee
  3. agee-jawed
  4. amiss
  5. anamorphous
  6. apish
  7. asinine
  8. askance
  9. askant
  10. askew
  11. askewgee
  12. asquint
  13. asymmetric
  14. awry
  15. batty
  16. befooled
  17. beguiled
  18. bent
  19. besotted
  20. boiled
  21. bombed
  22. boozy
  23. bowed
  24. brainless
  25. buffoonish
  26. bug-eyed
  27. cam
  28. canned
  29. catawampous
  30. catawamptious
  31. cock-a-hoop
  32. cockeyed drunk
  33. contorted
  34. convulsed
  35. crazy
  36. credulous
  37. crocked
  38. crocko
  39. crooked
  40. crookedly
  41. cross-eyed
  42. crumpled
  43. crunched
  44. daffy
  45. daft
  46. dazed
  47. deranged
  48. deviative
  49. disarranged
  50. discomfited
  51. discomposed
  52. disconcerted
  53. disguised
  54. dislocated
  55. disordered
  56. disorderly
  57. disorganized
  58. distorted
  59. disturbed
  60. dizzy
  61. doting
  62. drunk
  63. dumb
  64. elevated
  65. fatuitous
  66. fatuous
  67. flaky
  68. fond
  69. fool
  70. foolheaded
  71. foolish
  72. fried
  73. fuddled
  74. futile
  75. gaga
  76. glare-eyed
  77. goofy
  78. gulled
  79. half-seas over
  80. haywire
  81. high
  82. idiotic
  83. illuminated
  84. imbecile
  85. in disorder
  86. inane
  87. inebriated
  88. inept
  89. infatuated
  90. insane
  91. irregular
  92. kooky
  93. labyrinthine
  94. lit
  95. lit up
  96. loaded
  97. loony
  98. lopsided
  99. lubricated
  100. lushy
  101. mad
  102. maudlin
  103. misplaced
  104. monocular
  105. moon-eyed
  106. moronic
  107. muddled
  108. muzzy
  109. nonsymmetric
  110. nutty
  111. oiled
  112. on the fritz
  113. one-eyed
  114. one-sided
  115. organized
  116. out of gear
  117. out of joint
  118. out of kelter
  119. out of kilter
  120. out of order
  121. out of place
  122. out of tune
  123. out of whack
  124. perturbed
  125. pickled
  126. pie-eyed
  127. pissed
  128. pissy-eyed
  129. pixilated
  130. plastered
  131. polluted
  132. popeyed
  133. potted
  134. raddled
  135. roily
  136. sappy
  137. saucer-eyed
  138. screwy
  139. senseless
  140. sentimental
  141. shellacked
  142. shuffled
  143. silly
  144. skew
  145. skew-jawed
  146. skewed
  147. skunk-drunk
  148. slaunchways
  149. smashed
  150. soaked
  151. soused
  152. sprung
  153. squiffy
  154. squinting
  155. stewed
  156. stinko
  157. stupid
  158. swacked
  159. swivel-eyed
  160. tanked
  161. thoughtless
  162. tight
  163. tortuous
  164. turbid
  165. turbulent
  166. twisted
  167. unsettled
  168. unsymmetric
  169. upset
  170. wacky
  171. walleyed
  172. wamper-jawed
  173. warped
  174. wet
  175. witless
  176. wry
  177. yaw-ways

equivalents (5)

Other words for 'cockeyed'

  1. crooked
  2. drunk
  3. foolish
  4. inebriated
  5. intoxicated

same context (23)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. 'mlb
  2. anti-jackson
  3. anti-obama
  4. blandest
  5. blankety-blank
  6. can-do
  7. casehardened
  8. child-abusing
  9. diehard
  10. dropsical
  11. fucked-up
  12. goofy
  13. lopsided
  14. mad-scientist
  15. off-kilter
  16. overlong
  17. pie-eyed
  18. rakish
  19. remonstrant
  20. screwball
  21. soulless
  22. starry-eyed
  23. tendentious

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  • YeOldeWorde commented on the word cockeyed

    "Uhuhuhuh. Hey, Beavis. Check it out. Cockeyed. Uhhuhuhuh"

    April 2, 2012

  • YeOldeWorde commented on the word cockeyed

    "Uhuhuhuh. Hey, Beavis. Check it out. Cockeyed. Uhhuhuhuh"

    April 2, 2012

  • YeOldeWorde commented on the word cockeyed

    "Uhuhuhuh. Hey, Beavis. Check it out. Cockeyed. Uhhuhuhuh"

    April 2, 2012

  • YeOldeWorde commented on the word cockeyed

    "Uhuhuhuh. Hey, Beavis. Check it out. Cockeyed. Uhhuhuhuh"

    April 2, 2012

  • YeOldeWorde commented on the word cockeyed

    "Uhuhuhuh. Hey, Beavis. Check it out. Cockeyed. Uhhuhuhuh"

    April 2, 2012

  • YeOldeWorde commented on the word cockeyed

    Uhuhuhuh. Hey, Beavis. Check it out. Cockeyed. Uhhuhuhuh

    April 2, 2012

  • YeOldeWorde commented on the word cockeyed

    Uhuhuhuh. Hey, Beavis. Check it out. Cockeyed. Uhhuhuhuh

    April 2, 2012

  • YeOldeWorde commented on the word cockeyed

    Uhuhuhuh. Hey, Beavis. Check it out. Cockeyed. Uhhuhuhuh

    April 2, 2012

  • YeOldeWorde commented on the word cockeyed

    Uhuhuhuh. Hey, Beavis. Check it out. Cockeyed. Uhhuhuhuh

    April 2, 2012

  • YeOldeWorde commented on the word cockeyed

    Uhuhuhuh. Hey, Beavis. Check it out. Cockeyed. Uhhuhuhuh

    April 2, 2012

  • YeOldeWorde commented on the word cockeyed

    Uhuhuhuh. Hey, Beavis. Check it out. Cockeyed. Uhhuhuhuh

    April 2, 2012

  • YeOldeWorde commented on the word cockeyed

    Uhuhuhuh. Hey, Beavis. Check it out. Cockeyed. Uhhuhuhuh

    April 2, 2012

  • YeOldeWorde commented on the word cockeyed

    Uhuhuhuh. Hey, Beavis. Check it out. Cockeyed. Uhhuhuhuh

    April 2, 2012