CROOKEDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crookedness mean? 

• CROOKEDNESS (noun)
  The noun CROOKEDNESS has 3 senses:

1. a tortuous and twisted shape or position

2. having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles

3. the quality of being deceitful and underhanded

  Familiarity information: CROOKEDNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROOKEDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tortuous and twisted shape or position

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

contortion; crookedness; torsion; tortuosity; tortuousness

Context example:

the acrobat performed incredible contortions

Hypernyms ("crookedness" is a kind of...):

distorted shape; distortion (a shape resulting from distortion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("crookedness" is a kind of...):

configuration; conformation; contour; form; shape (any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline))

Antonym:

straightness (freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles)

Derivation:

crooked (having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of being deceitful and underhanded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

crookedness; deviousness

Hypernyms ("crookedness" is a kind of...):

dishonesty (the quality of being dishonest)

Derivation:

crooked (not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive)