crooked

1. 1.

   having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned

   “crooked country roads”

   “crooked teeth”

   Antonymsstraight

   Similarakimboanfractuousaquilineaskewcontorteddeflectivegeniculategnarled
2. 2.

   not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

   Synonymscorrupt

   Antonymsstraight

   Similarsneaky
3. 3.

   irregular in shape or outline

   “asymmetrical features”

   “a dress with a crooked hemline”

   Synonymsasymmetrical

   Similarirregular
4. 4.

   having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect

   “a little oldish misshapen stooping woman”

   Synonymshunchedround-backedround-shoulderedstoopedstooping

   Similarunerect

Other forms of crooked

comparative

crookedder·

superlative

crookeddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crooked

What does crooked mean?

crooked means "having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crooked?

crooked has 2 syllables: crook-ed. The stress falls on "crook". In IPA it is /ˈkɹʊkəd/.

What is another word for crooked?

Close synonyms include corrupt, asymmetrical, hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of crooked?

The recorded antonyms are straight, straight.

Is crooked a common word?

crooked is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.