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Dictionary: cock·eyed   (kŏk'īd') pronunciation
adj. Informal
  1. Foolish; ridiculous; absurd: a cockeyed idea.
  2. Askew; crooked.
  3. Intoxicated; drunk.

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adjective

  1. So senseless as to be laughable: absurd, foolish, harebrained, idiotic, imbecilic, insane, lunatic, mad, moronic, nonsensical, preposterous, silly, softheaded, tomfool, unearthly, zany. Informal crazy, loony, loopy. Slang balmy, dippy, dopey, jerky, sappy, wacky. See ability/inability, knowledge/ignorance.
  2. Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor: besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy. Informal stewed. Slang blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked. Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheetsintothe wind. See drugs/temperance.

Antonyms: cockeyed
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adj

Definition: crooked, askew
Antonyms: level, straight


WordNet: cockeyed
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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: turned or twisted toward one side
  Synonyms: askew, awry, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff


Translations: Cock-eyed
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - skeløjet, skæv, skør, beruset

Français (French)
adj. - absurde, qui ne tient pas debout (une histoire), qui louche

Deutsch (German)
adj. - schielend, schief, verrückt, betrunken

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - αλλήθωρος, γκαβός, παλαβός, μεθυσμένος, σουρωμένος, λοξοβαλμένος

Italiano (Italian)
strabico

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - estrábico, absurdo (gír.), levemente bêbado

Русский (Russian)
косоглазый, нелепый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - tonto

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - skelögd, sned (sl.), knäpp (sl.), dragen (sl.)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
斗鸡眼的, 歪斜的, 荒唐的, 喝醉的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 鬥雞眼的, 歪斜的, 荒唐的, 喝醉的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 사팔뜨기의, 바보 같은, 제정신이 아닌

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - やぶにらみの

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮פוזל, עקום, טיפש‬


 
 
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