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# awry

«awry» in Mova's school dictionary: **crooked, not straight or not in its right place: a hat…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb or adjective (no change in form)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Awry means crooked, not straight or not in its right place: a hat set awry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awry/#m1)

2) «Go awry» means go wrong and not turn out as planned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awry/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a hairstyle or a plan is not neat, or a plan fails.

### examples

- Any one but Cinderella would have dressed their heads awry, but she dressed them well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awry/#x1)
- Our picnic went awry when it rained. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awry/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths; a plan that goes awry gives a wrong answer, but the word does not change the numbers.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «awry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/awry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.