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单词 lopsided
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lopsidedadj.

Brit. /ˌlɒpˈsʌɪdᵻd/, U.S. /ˈlɑpˌsaɪdᵻd/
Forms: Also 1700s–1800s lapsided, 1800s lobsided; also lop-sided.
Etymology: < lop n.6 or lop v.2 + side n.1 + -ed suffix2.
a. That lops or appears to lop or lean on or towards one side; having one side lower or smaller than the other. Originally Nautical (of a ship): Disproportionately heavy on one side; unevenly balanced.
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the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adjective] > asymmetrical or misproportioned
misproportioned1552
asymmetral1615
eccentric1647
incommensurate1650
asymmetrous1661
asymmetrical1690
lopsided1711
uncertain1742
unsymmetrical1755
one-sided1857
alop1865
asymmetric1878
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel with reference to qualities or attributes > [adjective] > not seaworthy or unstable
walt1539
crank-sided1626
crank1696
walty1702
over-floaty1705
lopsided1711
tender1723
innavigable1755
unseaworthy1820
sick1854
cranky1861
1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 27 You will certainly have the Misfortune of a lapsided Ship.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Lap-sided, the state of a ship, which is built in such a manner as to have one side heavier than the other.
1820 W. M. Praed Surly Hall 221 He drew me once..('twas lopsided, And squinted worse than ever I did).
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. viii. 280 An odd, lop-sided, one-eyed kind of wooden building.
1878 D. Kemp Man. Yacht & Boat Sailing 356 Dict. Lob Sided, larger or heavier on one side than on the other.
1901 Athenæum 10 Aug. 198/1 The church..was..lop-sided, as one aisle..was narrower than the other.
b. figurative.
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1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. x. 159 The sooner we get the balance [of classes] equal the better; for its rather lopsided just now, no one can deny.
1868 J. R. Green Lett. (1901) ii. 200 The..article..is very lop-sided and unfair.
1891 F. W. Newman Life J. H. Newman 11 So lobsided morality, if propounded in a Mormon Bible or by a Hottentot Potentate, would be spurned as self-confuted.

Derivatives

lopˈsidedly adv.
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the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adverb] > asymmetrically
eccentricallya1687
unsymmetrically1755
asymmetrically1877
lopsidedly1896
1896 National Observer 21 Mar. 561/1 A turban..hanging lopsidedly over one ear.
lopˈsidedness n.
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the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [noun] > asymmetry
dextrality1646
asymmetry1664
one-sidedness1830
lopsidedness1843
dissymmetry1844
unsymmetry1867
sidedness1888
1843 H. James Let. 11 May in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 46 Thought heaped up to topheaviness and inevitable lopsidedness.
1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 76 A degree of instability or lop~sidedness which should not exist.
1946 Nature 21 Dec. 890/2 He makes, incidentally, a powerful case for some attempt to redress the lopsidedness of scientific advance.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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