wry
adj.
distorted; crooked; twisted; askew; contorted; ironic, dry
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wry
Adjective
1. humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit"
(synonym) dry, ironic, ironical
(similar) humorous, humourous
2. bent to one side; "a wry neck"
(similar) crooked
3. disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking; "his rebellion is the bitter, sardonic laughter of all great satirists"- Frank Schoenberner; "a wry pleasure to be...reminded of all that one is missing"- Irwin Edman
(synonym) sardonic
(similar) sarcastic
Wry
(v. t.)
To cover.
(v. i.)
To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.
(v. i.)
To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve.
(superl.)
Wrested; perverted.
(superl.)
Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth.
(superl.)
Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words.
(a.)
To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
wry
Synonyms and related words:
agee, agee-jawed, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, awry, catawampous, catawamptious, cockeyed, crooked, cynical, ironic, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, slaunchways, squinting, wamper-jawed, wrest, wring, yaw-ways
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.