awry
Off the mark
Awry means turned or twisted to one side, not straight: His tie was slightly awry.
More commonly, it describes plans or situations that have gone wrong: Something went awry with the delivery.
The word carries a sense of deviation from what was intended or expected—not catastrophic failure, just things not quite right.
Angled from vertical
- skewedAsymmetrically shifted
- lopsidedUnequally balanced
- crookedBent or dishonest
- slantedAngled from vertical
off-kilter · cockeyed · canted · aslant · oblique · angled · inclined · uneven
Wrong or faulty
- faultyHaving defects or errors
- erroneousContaining factual mistakes
- incorrectNot accurate or true
- flawedHaving faults or imperfections
mistaken · improper · botched · bungled · defective · malfunctioning · misfired · fouled
Lack of order
- chaosComplete disorder and confusion
- disorganizationAbsence of systematic arrangement
- jumbledDisordered, lacking arrangement
- tangledTwisted confusedly together
disheveled · scattered · muddled · scrambled · messy · unkempt · rumpled · tousled
Not predicted or expected
- unplannedNot arranged beforehand
- surprisingCausing mild shock
- accidentalOccurring by chance
- unanticipatedNot predicted beforehand
unpredicted · misfired · backfired · miscalculated · unintended · inadvertent · blindsided · curveball
tilted
Angled from vertical
slanted · off-kilter · cockeyed · canted · aslant · oblique · angled · inclined · uneven · off-center
amiss
Wrong or faulty
flawed · mistaken · improper · botched · bungled · defective · malfunctioning · misfired · fouled · spoiled
disarray
Lack of order
- chaosComplete disorder and confusion
- disorganizationAbsence of systematic arrangement
- jumbledDisordered, lacking arrangement
tangled · disheveled · scattered · muddled · scrambled · messy · unkempt · rumpled · tousled · mussed
unforeseen
Not predicted or expected
- unplannedNot arranged beforehand
- surprisingCausing mild shock
- accidentalOccurring by chance
unanticipated · unpredicted · misfired · backfired · miscalculated · unintended · inadvertent · blindsided · curveball · twist
- crookedcrooked, lopsided, off-center, off-kilter, skewed
- distortedwarped, twisted, bent, contorted, crooked
- Not Straightbent, curve, twist, warp, kink
- misalignmentmisaligned, misalignment, off-center, displaced, crooked
- disorderchaos, chaotic, disarray, mess, disordered
- botchedbotched, bungled, messed up, screwed up, fouled up