wry

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
2. Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic.
3. Twisted, bent, crooked.
4. Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To turn (away); to swerve or deviate.
2. (obsolete) To divert; to cause to turn away.
3. To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.).

Noun

Distortion.

Verb

To cover; clothe; cover up; cloak; hide.

Conceptos

torcido

irónico

sesgo

ladeado

saturnino

saturnina

Sinónimos

distorted

twisted

ironic

ironical

crooked

awry

warped

contorted

cockeyed

askew

dry

skew

woebegone

woeful

tortuous

oblique

sullen

rakish

sardonic

sidelong

slant

sly

sneaky

strange

sulky

transverse

underhand

underhanded

unpleasant

wily

wonky

wrong

squinty

slanting

bent

bilious

blind

confused

😕

crackpot

crafty

cunning

curved

devious

flighty

fly

✈️

grouchy

incorrect

kinky

morose

perverse

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɹaɪ/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English wrien, from Old English wrīġian (“to go, turn, twist, bend, strive, struggle, press forward, endeavor, venture”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to turn, wrap, tie”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Compare awry, wriggle.