awry

«awry» in Mova's school dictionary: crooked, not straight or not in its right place: a hat… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adverb or adjective (no change in form)

meaning for a pupil

1) Awry means crooked, not straight or not in its right place: a hat set awry. tree →

2) «Go awry» means go wrong and not turn out as planned. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales a hairstyle or a plan is not neat, or a plan fails.

examples

• Any one but Cinderella would have dressed their heads awry, but she dressed them well. tree →
• Our picnic went awry when it rained. tree →

note

nothing for maths; a plan that goes awry gives a wrong answer, but the word does not change the numbers.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «awry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.