Exact Match:
- deflective
- capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave)
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- agee,
- agee-jawed,
- askance,
- askant,
- askew,
- askewgee,
- asquint,
- asymmetric,
- awry,
- catawampous,
- catawamptious,
- cockeyed,
- crooked,
- deflected,
- deflective,
- diffracted,
- diffractive,
- diffuse,
- diffused,
- disparate,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- distorted,
- flectional,
- flexed,
- ill-matched,
- ill-sorted,
- inadequate,
- inflective,
- insufficient,
- irregular,
- mismatched,
- odd,
- out of proportion,
- refracted,
- refractile,
- refractive,
- refrangible,
- scattered,
- skew,
- skew-jawed,
- slaunchways,
- squinting,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- wamper-jawed,
- wry,
- yaw-ways
- dispersed
collapse - distributed or spread over a considerable extent; "has ties with many widely dispersed friends"; "eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe" related words >
- aimless,
- alienated,
- amorphous,
- broadcast,
- capricious,
- casual,
- deflected,
- deflective,
- desultory,
- detached,
- diffracted,
- diffractive,
- diffuse,
- diffused,
- disarticulated,
- disconnected,
- discontinuous,
- discrete,
- disengaged,
- disjoined,
- disjoint,
- disjointed,
- disjunct,
- dislocated,
- disordered,
- dispread,
- disproportionate,
- disseminated,
- dissipated,
- distorted,
- distributed,
- disunited,
- divided,
- divorced,
- erratic,
- estranged,
- fitful,
- flectional,
- flexed,
- formless,
- frivolous,
- gratuitous,
- haphazard,
- hit-or-miss,
- immethodical,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- indiscriminate,
- inflective,
- irregular,
- isolated,
- meaningless,
- misshapen,
- nonsymmetrical,
- nonsystematic,
- nonuniform,
- orderless,
- planless,
- promiscuous,
- random,
- refracted,
- refractile,
- refractive,
- refrangible,
- removed,
- scattered,
- segregated,
- senseless,
- separated,
- sequestered,
- shapeless,
- shut off,
- skew,
- skewed,
- sparse,
- spasmodic,
- sporadic,
- spread,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- strewn,
- strown,
- systemless,
- unarranged,
- unclassified,
- undirected,
- ungraded,
- unjoined,
- unmethodical,
- unordered,
- unorganized,
- unsorted,
- unsymmetrical,
- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- vague,
- wandering,
- widespread
- scattered
collapse
- occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space; "scattered showers"; "scattered villages" related words >
- alienated,
- all up with,
- anarchic,
- arsy-varsy,
- ass-backwards,
- balled up,
- beat,
- beaten,
- bested,
- bollixed up,
- broadcast,
- chaotic,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- confounded,
- confused,
- defeated,
- deflected,
- deflective,
- detached,
- diffracted,
- diffractive,
- diffuse,
- diffused,
- disarticulated,
- discomfited,
- disconnected,
- discrete,
- disengaged,
- disjoined,
- disjoint,
- disjointed,
- disjunct,
- dislocated,
- dispersed,
- dispread,
- disseminated,
- dissipated,
- distorted,
- distributed,
- disunited,
- divided,
- divorced,
- done for,
- done in,
- down,
- estranged,
- exiguous,
- fallen,
- fixed,
- flectional,
- flexed,
- floored,
- fouled up,
- galley-west,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hors de combat,
- hugger-mugger,
- in a mess,
- inflective,
- infrequent,
- isolated,
- jumbled,
- lambasted,
- lathered,
- licked,
- meager,
- miserly,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- muddled,
- niggardly,
- on the skids,
- outdone,
- overborne,
- overcome,
- overmastered,
- overmatched,
- overpowered,
- overridden,
- overthrown,
- overturned,
- overwhelmed,
- panicked,
- piddling,
- poor,
- put to rout,
- rare,
- refracted,
- refractile,
- refractive,
- refrangible,
- removed,
- routed,
- ruined,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- screwed up,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- segregated,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- separated,
- sequestered,
- settled,
- shut off,
- silenced,
- skew,
- skewed,
- skimble-skamble,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- skinned,
- skinned alive,
- slim,
- snafu,
- sparse,
- sporadic,
- spotty,
- spread,
- sprinkled,
- stampeded,
- stingy,
- straggling,
- straggly,
- strewn,
- strown,
- thin,
- tight,
- topsy-turvy,
- trimmed,
- trounced,
- undone,
- upset,
- upside-down,
- whelmed,
- whipped,
- widespread,
- worsted
- skew
collapse
- having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew"
- turn or place at an angle; "the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed" related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- agee,
- agee-jawed,
- angle,
- angle off,
- askance,
- askant,
- askew,
- askewgee,
- asquint,
- asymmetric,
- awry,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bent,
- bias,
- branching off,
- catawampous,
- catawamptious,
- circuitousness,
- cockeyed,
- corner,
- crook,
- crooked,
- curve,
- declination,
- deflect,
- deflected,
- deflective,
- departure,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviate,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- diffract,
- diffracted,
- diffractive,
- diffuse,
- diffused,
- digression,
- dip,
- disbalance,
- discursion,
- disequilibrate,
- disparate,
- disperse,
- dispersed,
- disproportionate,
- distort,
- distorted,
- divagate,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- diverge,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- divert,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- edge,
- errantry,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- flectional,
- flexed,
- go crabwise,
- go sideways,
- goggle,
- hairpin,
- ill-matched,
- ill-sorted,
- inadequate,
- indirection,
- inflective,
- insufficient,
- irregular,
- lateral,
- lateralize,
- look asquint,
- lurch,
- make leeway,
- mismatched,
- oblique,
- obliquity,
- odd,
- out of proportion,
- overbalance,
- pererration,
- pull,
- rambling,
- refract,
- refracted,
- refractile,
- refractive,
- refrangible,
- scatter,
- scattered,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- sideslip,
- sidestep,
- sidle,
- skew-jawed,
- skewed,
- skid,
- slant,
- slaunchways,
- slide,
- slip,
- slue,
- squinch,
- squint,
- squint the eye,
- squinting,
- straying,
- sway,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- throw off balance,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- unbalance,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- upset,
- variation,
- veer,
- wamper-jawed,
- wandering,
- warp,
- wry,
- yaw,
- yaw-ways,
- zigzag
- distorted
collapse
- having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem" related words >
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- affected,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- anamorphous,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- askew,
- assumed,
- astray,
- asymmetric,
- at fault,
- awry,
- bastard,
- bent,
- beside the mark,
- blemished,
- bogus,
- bowed,
- brummagem,
- catachrestic,
- checked,
- cicatrized,
- cockeyed,
- colorable,
- colored,
- contorted,
- corrupt,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- crooked,
- crumpled,
- crunched,
- deceptive,
- defaced,
- defective,
- deflected,
- deflective,
- deformed,
- delusive,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- diffracted,
- diffractive,
- diffuse,
- diffused,
- disfigured,
- dispersed,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- eisegetical,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsified,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- flawed,
- flectional,
- flexed,
- garbled,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illegitimate,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- imitation,
- inflective,
- irregular,
- junky,
- keloidal,
- kinked,
- labyrinthine,
- lopsided,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- marred,
- misapprehended,
- misconceived,
- misconstrued,
- misinterpreted,
- misread,
- mistaken,
- misunderstood,
- mock,
- nonsymmetric,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- one-sided,
- out,
- peccant,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pimpled,
- pimply,
- pinchbeck,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- refracted,
- refractile,
- refractive,
- refrangible,
- scabbed,
- scabby,
- scarified,
- scarred,
- scattered,
- self-contradictory,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- skew,
- skewed,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- split,
- sprung,
- spurious,
- straying,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- tortuous,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- unfactual,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unreal,
- unsymmetric,
- untrue,
- warped,
- wide,
- wrong
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