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# lopsided

adjective (lopsided, more lopsided)

«lopsided» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Lopsided means leaning to one side, with one side bigger, lower or heavier than the other. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lopsided/#m1)
2. A lopsided result or game is very unequal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lopsided/#m2)

### In the lessons

Used about drawings, cakes, smiles and buildings in everyday life; in sport about very one-sided scores. In maths it is the opposite of symmetrical or balanced.

### Examples

- My cake came out lopsided. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lopsided/#x1)
- He gave me a lopsided smile. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lopsided/#x2)
- The picture on the wall is lopsided. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lopsided/#x3)
- The snowman looked lopsided. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lopsided/#x4)
- It was a lopsided game: 10–0. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lopsided/#x5)
- The shelf is lopsided because one bracket is loose. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lopsided/#x6)

### Note

One word. Similar words: crooked, uneven, wonky (UK, informal). Opposite: even, balanced, symmetrical.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «lopsided» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lopsided/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«lopsided» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lopsided.html) on Mova free.