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# lopsided

«lopsided» in Mova's school dictionary: **leaning to one side, with one side bigger, lower or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (lopsided, more lopsided)

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) A lopsided result or game is very unequal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lopsided/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

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