crookedness

Other forms of crookedness

plural

crookednesses·

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 crookedness

What does crookedness mean?

crookedness means "a tortuous and twisted shape or position". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crookedness?

crookedness has 3 syllables: crook-ed-ness. The stress falls on "crook". In IPA it is /ˈkɹʊkədnəs/.

What is another word for crookedness?

Close synonyms include tortuosity, tortuousness, torsion, contortion, deviousness. 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 crookedness?

The recorded antonyms are straightness.

Is crookedness a common word?

crookedness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.