CROOKEDNESS as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the quality of being deceitful and underhanded
   Synonym(s)
   • deviousness (what does deviousness mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) crookedness is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • dishonesty (what does dishonesty mean?)
2. Meaning
   • having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles
   Hypernyms(s) crookedness is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • shape (what does shape mean?)
   • form (what does form mean?)
   • configuration (what does configuration mean?)
   • contour (what does contour mean?)
   • conformation (what does conformation mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • straightness (what does straightness mean?)
3. Meaning
   • a tortuous and twisted shape or position
   Synonym(s)
   • contortion (what does contortion mean?)
   • torsion (what does torsion mean?)
   • tortuosity (what does tortuosity mean?)
   • tortuousness (what does tortuousness mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs
   • the acrobat performed incredible contortions
   Hypernyms(s) crookedness is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • distorted shape (what does distorted shape mean?)
   • distortion (what does distortion mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • contort (what does contort mean?)
   • deform (what does deform mean?)
   • distort (what does distort mean?)
   • wring (what does wring mean?)