skewed

skew  (sky)

v. skewed, skew·ing, skews

v.intr.

1. To take an oblique course or direction.

2. To look obliquely or sideways.

v.tr.

1. To turn or place at an angle.

2. To give a bias to; distort.

adj.

1. Placed or turned to one side; asymmetrical.

2. Distorted or biased in meaning or effect.

3. Having a part that diverges, as in gearing.

4.

a. Mathematics Neither parallel nor intersecting. Used of straight lines in space.

b. Statistics Not symmetrical about the mean. Used of distributions.

n.

An oblique or slanting movement, position, or direction.

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[Middle English skewen, to escape, run sideways, from Old North French eskiuer, of Germanic origin.]

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skewness n.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

skewed - having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew" skew inclined - at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position; "an inclined plane"

Translations

skewed [ˈskjuːd] ADJ → sesgado, torcido(also fig)

skewed [ˈskjuːd] adj (= distorted) [view, results, statistics] → faussé(e)