What are the opposite words for straight?
When we think of the word "straight", we often associate it with things that are linear, direct, or even upright. However, its antonyms can provide us with a more diverse vocabulary to express ourselves. One antonym to straight is "crooked", which implies things being curvy or bent. Another is "curved", conveying rounder shapes or movements. "Bent" can also be used, indicating something being flexed or warped. Additionally, we have "twisted", which suggests a more complex or tangled shape. Lastly, we have "wavy", which signals oscillating, undulating patterns. By utilizing these antonyms, we can better describe objects, emotions, and actions in more detail and depth.
- twirl
-
distort
- gnarl,
- lied,
- trump up,
- whitewashed,
- Gnarling,
- Misconstrued,
- Snowed,
- Snowing,
- gnarls,
- scamming,
- scammed,
- putting one on,
- be lied,
- be lying,
- be-lied,
- be-lying,
- co loring,
- co-loring,
- de cline,
- de clines,
- de-cline,
- de-clines,
- dis figure,
- dis figures,
- dis figuring,
- dis tort,
- dis torts,
- dis-figure,
- dis-figures,
- dis-figuring,
- dis-tort,
- dis-torts,
- made out like,
- make out like,
- mis construe,
- mis construed,
- mis construes,
- mis construing,
- mis interpreted,
- mis interpreting,
- mis interprets,
- mis represent,
- mis represented,
- mis representing,
- mis represents,
- mis shape,
- mis shaped,
- mis shapes,
- mis shaping,
- mis-construe,
- mis-construed,
- mis-construes,
- mis-construing,
- mis-interpreted,
- mis-interprets,
- mis-represent,
- mis-represented,
- mis-representing,
- mis-represents,
- mis-shape,
- mis-shapes,
- mis-shaping,
- phonied up,
- phonies up,
- phony up,
- phonying up,
- put one on,
- puts one on,
- trumping up,
- trumps up.
- deform; falsify
- turn around circularly
-
gay
- gay.
-
helter-skelter
- at random,
- hastily,
- headlong,
- hurriedly,
- incautiously,
- randomly,
- unmindfully,
- Incontinently,
- Pellmell,
- in confusion,
- head long,
- head-long,
- helter skelter,
- helterskelter,
- higgledy piggledy,
- higgledypiggledy,
- in cautiously,
- in continently,
- in-cautiously,
- in-continently,
- pell mell,
- tumultous tumultuous,
- tumultous-tumultuous,
- tumultoustumultuous,
- un mindfully,
- un-mindfully.
- carelessly, confused
- immediately, directly
- perverted
- destroyed
-
exaggerated
- hammy,
- hyperbolic,
- overkill,
- overestimated,
- a bit thick,
- out of proportion,
- over-wrought,
- caricatural,
- hammier,
- hammiest,
- more bouncing,
- more caricatural,
- more embroidered,
- more hyperbolic,
- more magnified,
- more overestimated,
- more overkill,
- more stylized,
- more too too,
- more too-too,
- more tootoo,
- most amplified,
- most bouncing,
- most caricatural,
- most embroidered,
- most fabricated,
- most hyperbolic,
- most magnified,
- most overestimated,
- most stylized,
- most too too,
- most tootoo,
- out proportion,
- over blown,
- over done,
- over estimated,
- over kill,
- over-blown,
- over-estimated,
- over-kill,
- too too,
- too-too,
- tootoo,
- un realistic.
-
curved
- beaked,
- bent,
- incurvate,
- incurved,
- sigmoid,
- twisty,
- wreathed,
- Declinate,
- swirly,
- arrondi,
- biflected,
- enbowed,
- in curved,
- in-curved,
- more arrondi,
- more biflected,
- more compass,
- more declinate,
- more enbowed,
- more incurvate,
- more incurved,
- more s shaped,
- more s-shaped,
- more sigmoid,
- more sshaped,
- more turned,
- more wreathed,
- most arrondi,
- most biflected,
- most compass,
- most declinate,
- most enbowed,
- most incurvate,
- most incurved,
- most s shaped,
- most s-shaped,
- most sigmoid,
- most sshaped,
- most turned,
- most wreathed,
- s shaped,
- sshaped,
- swirlier,
- swirliest,
- twistier,
- twistiest.
-
deformed
- humpbacked,
- misproportioned,
- de formed,
- de-formed,
- dis jointed,
- dis-jointed,
- illmade,
- mis proportioned,
- mis-proportioned,
- more blemished,
- more buckled,
- more humpbacked,
- more hunchbacked,
- more ill made,
- more ill-made,
- more illmade,
- more marred,
- more misproportioned,
- more scarred,
- most blemished,
- most buckled,
- most humpbacked,
- most hunchbacked,
- most ill made,
- most ill-made,
- most illmade,
- most mangled,
- most marred,
- most scarred.
- confused
- bending
-
bent
- angular,
- arced,
- humped,
- slouchy,
- warped,
- slouchier,
- doubled over,
- dis posed,
- dis-posed,
- in tent,
- more angled,
- more contorted,
- more humped,
- more hunched,
- more leaning,
- more resolved,
- more slumped,
- more twined,
- more warped,
- more wilted,
- most angled,
- most contorted,
- most humped,
- most hunched,
- most leaning,
- most resolved,
- most slumped,
- most twined,
- most warped,
- most wilted,
- pre-disposed,
- re solute,
- re-solute,
- re-solved,
- slouchiest.
-
false
- contrary to fact,
- rascally,
- scoundrelly,
- Forsworn,
- Misrepresentative,
- Crocker,
- socalled,
- falsehearted,
- bummest,
- contrary fact,
- cooked-up,
- cookedup,
- counter factual,
- counter-factual,
- crockest,
- dis guised,
- dis loyal,
- dis-guised,
- dis-loyal,
- in accurate,
- in correct,
- in valid,
- in-valid,
- madeup,
- makebelieve,
- mis representative,
- mis taken,
- mis-representative,
- more apostate,
- more concocted,
- more cooked up,
- more cooked-up,
- more cookedup,
- more deluding,
- more forsworn,
- more imitation,
- more misrepresentative,
- more mythomaniac,
- more rascally,
- more scoundrelly,
- most apostate,
- most beguiling,
- most concocted,
- most cooked up,
- most cooked-up,
- most cookedup,
- most deluding,
- most forsworn,
- most imitation,
- most misrepresentative,
- most mythomaniac,
- most scoundrelly,
- mythomaniac,
- pre-tended,
- so called,
- un faithful,
- un founded,
- un sound,
- un sounder,
- un-faithful,
- un-founded,
- un-real,
- un-sound,
- un-sounder,
- un-soundest.
-
round
- bulbous,
- discoid,
- globose,
- orbicular,
- spheroid,
- Domical,
- Orbed,
- disk-shaped,
- disk shaped,
- diskshaped,
- egg shaped,
- more discoid,
- more disk shaped,
- more disk-shaped,
- more diskshaped,
- more domical,
- more globose,
- more orbed,
- more orbicular,
- more orbiculate,
- more ringed,
- most discoid,
- most disk shaped,
- most disk-shaped,
- most diskshaped,
- most domical,
- most globose,
- most orbed,
- most orbicular,
- most orbiculate,
- most ringed,
- most spheroid.
-
dishonest
- untrue,
- dis honest,
- dis reputable,
- dis-honest,
- dis-reputable,
- more bluffing,
- more cheating,
- more deceiving,
- more double crossing,
- more double-crossing,
- more hoodwinking,
- more swindling,
- more two timing,
- more two-timing,
- more twotiming,
- most backbiting,
- most bluffing,
- most deceiving,
- most double crossing,
- most double-crossing,
- most doublecrossing,
- most hoodwinking,
- most swindling,
- most two timing,
- most two-timing,
- most twotiming,
- two faced,
- twofaced,
- un fair,
- un fairer,
- un fairest,
- un-fair,
- un-fairer,
- un-fairest,
- un-trustworthy.
- complicated
- rolled
-
enervated
- out of condition,
- de vitalized,
- de-vitalized,
- gone seed,
- gone to seed,
- in capacitated,
- in-capacitated,
- more enfeebled,
- more prostrated,
- more sapped,
- more undermined,
- more unnerved,
- more vitiated,
- most devitalized,
- most enfeebled,
- most sapped,
- most undermined,
- most unnerved,
- most vitiated,
- on ropes,
- on the ropes,
- out condition,
- out gas,
- out of gas,
- un nerved,
- under mined,
- under-mined,
- washed out.
-
homosexual
- gay.
-
abnormal
- gross,
- irregular,
- off-base,
- spastic,
- Heteroclite,
- Heteromorphic,
- oddest,
- funnier,
- out of line,
- extra ordinary,
- extra-ordinary,
- grodier,
- grodiest,
- grody,
- hetero clite,
- hetero-clite,
- more curious,
- more deviate,
- more heteroclite,
- more heteromorphic,
- more off base,
- more off-base,
- more offbase,
- more spastic,
- most deviate,
- most heteroclite,
- most heteromorphic,
- most off base,
- most off-base,
- most offbase,
- most spastic,
- off color,
- offbase,
- offcolor,
- out line,
- un common,
- un commoner,
- un commonest,
- un expected,
- un natural,
- un orthodox,
- un usual,
- un-common,
- un-commoner,
- un-commonest,
- un-expected,
- un-natural,
- un-orthodox,
- un-usual.
- aquiline
- arced
- astray
- circuitous
-
curly
- corkscrew,
- permed,
- Frizzed,
- Crimpy,
- crinklier,
- crinkliest,
- crimpier,
- crimpiest,
- more corkscrew,
- more crimped,
- more crinkling,
- more curled,
- more curling,
- more frizzed,
- more permed,
- more spiralled,
- more waved,
- more waving,
- more wound,
- most corkscrew,
- most crimped,
- most crinkling,
- most curled,
- most curling,
- most frizzed,
- most permed,
- most spiralled,
- most waved,
- most wound,
- spiralled.
-
devious
- detouring,
- de touring,
- de-touring,
- digressory,
- ex cursive,
- ex-cursive,
- faking one out,
- more confounding,
- more detouring,
- more digressing,
- more digressory,
- more obliquitous,
- most confounding,
- most detouring,
- most digressing,
- most digressory,
- most obliquitous,
- not straightforward,
- obliquitous,
- playing games,
- re moved,
- re-mote,
- under handed,
- under-handed.
-
evasive
- casuistic,
- casuistical,
- sophistical,
- Elusory,
- in tangible,
- in-tangible,
- more casuistic,
- more casuistical,
- more dissembling,
- more elusory,
- more equivocating,
- more prevaricating,
- more shuffling,
- more sophistical,
- more stonewalling,
- most casuistic,
- most casuistical,
- most dissembling,
- most elusory,
- most equivocating,
- most prevaricating,
- most shuffling,
- most sophistical,
- most stonewalling,
- un clear,
- un clearer,
- un clearest,
- un-clear,
- un-clearer,
- un-clearest.
-
haphazard
- unconscious,
- unmethodical,
- Designless,
- Willy nilly,
- any old way,
- all over the map,
- all over map,
- de signless,
- de-signless,
- devil may care,
- dis orderly,
- dis organized,
- dis-orderly,
- dis-organized,
- fluker,
- flukest,
- in discriminate,
- in-discriminate,
- more designless,
- more unmethodical,
- most designless,
- un concerned,
- un conscious,
- un considered,
- un methodical,
- un premeditated,
- un systematic,
- un thinking,
- un-concerned,
- un-conscious,
- un-considered,
- un-methodical,
- un-organized,
- un-premeditated,
- un-systematic,
- un-thinking,
- willynilly.
- indirect
- intricate
-
ironic
- double-edged,
- paradoxical,
- uncomplimentary,
- double edged,
- doubleedged,
- more chaffing,
- more double edged,
- more double-edged,
- more doubleedged,
- more jibing,
- more paradoxical,
- more uncomplimentary,
- most double edged,
- most double-edged,
- most doubleedged,
- most jibing,
- most uncomplimentary,
- quick witted,
- quickwitted,
- un-complimentary.
- kinky
- loaded
- looped
-
lopsided
- disproportional,
- Inclinatory,
- topheavy,
- onesided,
- overbalanced,
- nonsymmetrical,
- off balance,
- dis proportional,
- dis proportionate,
- dis-proportional,
- dis-proportionate,
- more disproportional,
- more inclinatory,
- more nonsymmetrical,
- more overbalanced,
- more tilting,
- most disproportional,
- most inclinatory,
- most nonsymmetrical,
- most overbalanced,
- most tilting,
- non symmetrical,
- non-symmetrical,
- off-balance,
- offbalance,
- one sided,
- over balanced,
- over-balanced,
- top heavy,
- un equal,
- un steadier,
- un steadiest,
- un steady,
- un-balanced,
- un-equal,
- un-steadier,
- un-steadiest.
- misleading
- mixed-up
- rambling
- sinuous
- sly
- sneaky
- stoned
-
topsy-turvy
- inside-out,
- upended,
- Luxated,
- topsyturvy,
- dis arranged,
- dis located,
- dis ordered,
- dis-arranged,
- dis-located,
- dis-ordered,
- downside up,
- downside-up,
- downsideup,
- insideout,
- more disarranged,
- more dislocated,
- more downside up,
- more downside-up,
- more downsideup,
- more inside out,
- more inside-out,
- more insideout,
- more littered,
- more luxated,
- more upended,
- most disarranged,
- most dislocated,
- most downside up,
- most downside-up,
- most downsideup,
- most inside out,
- most inside-out,
- most insideout,
- most littered,
- most luxated,
- most upended,
- topsy turvy,
- un hinged,
- un tidier,
- un tidiest,
- un tidy,
- un-hinged,
- un-tidier,
- un-tidiest,
- un-tidy,
- up ended,
- up turned,
- up-ended,
- up-turned,
- upsidedown.
- tortuous
- wavy
- wily
-
wry
- ironic,
- wry,
- more ironic.
-
angular
- divaricate,
- sharp-cornered,
- Crotched,
- bi furcate,
- bi-furcate,
- more akimbo,
- more bifurcate,
- more crossing,
- more crotched,
- more divaricate,
- more intersecting,
- more sharp cornered,
- more sharp-cornered,
- more sharpcornered,
- more skewed,
- more staggered,
- more v shaped,
- more v-shaped,
- more vshaped,
- more y shaped,
- more y-shaped,
- more yshaped,
- most akimbo,
- most bifurcate,
- most crossing,
- most crotched,
- most divaricate,
- most intersecting,
- most sharp cornered,
- most sharp-cornered,
- most sharpcornered,
- most skewed,
- most staggered,
- most v shaped,
- most v-shaped,
- most vshaped,
- most y shaped,
- most y-shaped,
- most yshaped,
- sharp cornered,
- sharpcornered,
- v shaped,
- vshaped,
- y shaped,
- yshaped.
- befuddled
- cockeyed
- crafty
- distorted
-
drunk
- crocked,
- fuddled,
- inebriated,
- intoxicated,
- looped,
- pickled,
- potted,
- sloshed,
- soused,
- stewed,
- tipsy,
- totaled,
- Boozed,
- juiced,
- tanked,
- bombed,
- boozed up,
- feeling no pain,
- three sheets to the wind,
- liquored up,
- more bashed,
- more buzzed,
- more fuddled,
- more juiced,
- more laced,
- more tanked,
- more totaled,
- most bashed,
- most buzzed,
- most fuddled,
- most juiced,
- most laced,
- most tanked,
- most totaled,
- seeing double,
- three sheets the wind,
- three sheets to wind,
- three sheets wind,
- under table,
- under the table.
- gnarled
- hooked
- inebriated
- insincere
-
intoxicated
- euphoric,
- loaded,
- smashed,
- ex cited,
- ex-cited,
- more captivated,
- more enraptured,
- more euphoric,
- more galvanized,
- more piqued,
- more quickened,
- most captivated,
- most enraptured,
- most euphoric,
- most galvanized,
- most piqued,
- most quickened,
- tied on,
- tied one on,
- turnedon,
- un sober,
- un soberer,
- un soberest,
- un-sober,
- un-soberer,
- un-soberest,
- unsober,
- unsoberer,
- unsoberest.
-
knotted
- gnarled,
- Lassoed,
- inter-twined,
- more banded,
- more braided,
- more bunched,
- more clinched,
- more clumped,
- more clustered,
- more hitched,
- more lashed,
- more lassoed,
- more meshed,
- more whirled,
- most banded,
- most braided,
- most bunched,
- most clustered,
- most hitched,
- most intertwined,
- most lashed,
- most lassoed,
- most meshed,
- most snagged,
- most snarled,
- most whirled.
- labyrinthine
- limber
- limp
- prone
-
prostrate
- fagged,
- bowed low,
- de pressed,
- de-pressed,
- dis armed,
- dis-armed,
- in-consolable,
- knocked over,
- more disarmed,
- more fagged,
- more frazzled,
- more immobilized,
- more overpowered,
- most fagged,
- most frazzled,
- most immobilized,
- most overpowered,
- over come,
- over powered,
- over whelmed,
- over-powered,
- over-whelmed,
- sub missive.
- serpentine
- slanting
- sloping
- snaky
-
spent
- all in,
- burnt-out,
- dog-tired,
- played out,
- had it,
- ready to drop,
- burntout,
- dog tired,
- dogtired,
- done-in,
- donein,
- down drain,
- ex pended,
- ex-pended,
- far-gone,
- fargone,
- more burnt out,
- more burnt-out,
- more burntout,
- more dog-tired,
- more dogtired,
- more donein,
- more expended,
- more far gone,
- more fargone,
- more played out,
- more played-out,
- more playedout,
- more shattered,
- more shot,
- most burnt out,
- most burnt-out,
- most burntout,
- most consumed,
- most dog tired,
- most dog-tired,
- most dogtired,
- most done in,
- most done-in,
- most donein,
- most expended,
- most far gone,
- most far-gone,
- most fargone,
- most played out,
- most played-out,
- most playedout,
- most shot,
- played-out,
- ready drop,
- thrown away,
- washed up,
- washedup.
-
spiral
- cochlear,
- helical,
- voluted,
- whorled,
- Helicoid,
- Scrolled,
- tendrillar,
- circumvoluted,
- screw-shaped,
- more circling,
- more circumvoluted,
- more cochlear,
- more helical,
- more helicoid,
- more screw shaped,
- more screw-shaped,
- more screwshaped,
- more scrolled,
- more tendrillar,
- more voluted,
- more whorled,
- most circling,
- most circumvoluted,
- most cochlear,
- most helical,
- most helicoid,
- most screw shaped,
- most screw-shaped,
- most screwshaped,
- most scrolled,
- most tendrillar,
- most voluted,
- most whorled,
- screw shaped,
- screwshaped.
- turning
- twisted
- untrue
-
wide
- outspread,
- splay,
- wide,
- far-ranging,
- all inclusive,
- allinclusive,
- dis tended,
- dis-tended,
- ex tensive,
- far off,
- far ranging,
- far reaching,
- farranging,
- farreaching,
- large scale,
- largescale,
- more away,
- more dilated,
- more expanded,
- more far ranging,
- more far-ranging,
- more off target,
- more off-target,
- more offtarget,
- more outspread,
- more outstretched,
- most expanded,
- most far ranging,
- most farranging,
- most off target,
- most offtarget,
- most outspread,
- most outstretched,
- most scopic,
- off-target,
- offtarget,
- out spread,
- out-stretched,
- scopic,
- splayer,
- splayest,
- uni versal,
- uni-versal.
- winding
- zigzag
- different from standard or norm
- all
- off the path or right direction
-
bombed
- Half seas over,
- Trashed,
- drunk as a skunk,
- be sotted,
- be-sotted,
- drunk as skunk,
- half-seas over,
- halfseas over,
- in cups,
- in one cups,
- in one's cups,
- in ones cups,
- more faced,
- more shit faced,
- more shitfaced,
- more trashed,
- most faced,
- most shit faced,
- most shit-faced,
- most shitfaced,
- most trashed,
- shit faced,
- shit-faced,
- shitfaced.
- going around, indirect
- crooked, askew
- clever, scheming
- bent, angled
- looping, forming ringlets
- bowed, bent
- not straight
- disfigured, distorted
- dishonest, crafty
- wrecked
- lying, untruthful
- intoxicated by alcohol
- deceitful, tricky
- overstated, embellished
- wrong, made up
- without plan or organization
- roundabout; unintended
- complicated, elaborate
- mazelike
- leaning, falling to one side; larger on one side
- deceptive, confusing
- immoral, evil
- lying down
- flat, horizontal
- disconnected, wordy
- made into a roll
- ball-shaped; semicircular area
- winding; sly
- winding, twisting
- at a slant
-
clever, devious
- sly.
- underhanded, dishonest
- used up, gone; tired out
- curling, winding
- high on alcohol or drugs
- aligned; not curved
- honest, fair
- very twisted
- under the influence
- drunk or less than drunk
- high on drugs
-
undulating
- wavy.
-
crafty, clever
- wily.
- bending, turning
- moving side to side
-
Other relevant words
- sinuate,
- turbinate,
- convolute,
- wound,
- knotty,
- arching,
- volute,
- arched,
- ripped,
- rolled,
- crabwise,
- edgeways,
- edgewise,
- indirectly,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- bent,
- alcoholic,
- amalgamated,
- ambiguous,
- atrocious,
- bad,
- befouled,
- befuddled,
- besmirched,
- black,
- blameworthy,
- blended,
- circumlocutory,
- civil,
- coalesced,
- combined,
- compounded,
- conjoined,
- considerate,
- corrupted,
- courteous,
- crapulous,
- crisp,
- curvey,
- curvilineal,
- debased,
- debauched,
- defiled,
- deflective,
- degenerate,
- depraved,
- dilute,
- diplomatic,
- dissembling,
- dissipated,
- dissolute,
- dopey,
- equivocal,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- evasive,
- evil,
- evil-minded,
- fallen,
- fouled,
- fused,
- high,
- hypocritical,
- immoral,
- improper,
- in series,
- inaccurate,
- inconsequent,
- incorporated,
- indecent,
- indecorous,
- infamous,
- inhibited,
- iniquitous,
- intermingled,
- joined,
- laconic,
- libertine,
- linked,
- lit,
- long-winded,
- looping,
- maudlin,
- mean,
- meandering,
- merged,
- mixed,
- naughty,
- nefarious,
- noncontinuous,
- objectionable,
- offensive,
- perverted,
- pie-eyed,
- polite,
- politic,
- prolix,
- quiet,
- reprobate,
- reserved,
- restrained,
- reticent,
- roundabout,
- rounded,
- sinful,
- sinusoidal,
- sneaky,
- soiled,
- spoiled,
- sullied,
- taciturn,
- tactful,
- turned,
- turning,
- twined,
- two-faced,
- unbecoming,
- uncommunicative,
- unerect,
- unethical,
- united,
- unprincipled,
- unrighteous,
- unscrupulous,
- unseemly,
- veering,
- verbose,
- vicious,
- villainous,
- weaving,
- wicked,
- wordy,
- Dipsomaniacal,
- Zigzagging,
- Commingled,
- Twining,
- intermixed,
- tight-lipped,
- entwined,
- nonconsecutive,
- close-mouthed,
- watered-down.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
out-
- Antonyms:
- in-, end-.