Meaning & use
wonky
Unsteady, crooked, or not working correctly; informal for slightly broken or off-balance.
See it in a sentence
One leg of the table is wonky, so it wobbles whenever you lean on it.
The printer has been wonky ever since the power outage last week.
A note on using this word
Wonky is informal British English, used casually for objects that malfunction or sit unevenly, rarely in formal writing.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
steadystable
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