different between misaligned vs wonky

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?nd

Adjective

misaligned (not comparable)

1. Out of alignment.

Translations

Verb

misaligned

1. simple past tense and past participle of misalign

Anagrams

• misdealing, misleading

English

Etymology 1

From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English wancol (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w???.k?/
• (US) enPR: w?ng?k?, IPA^(key): /?w??.ki/, /?w??.ki/
• Rhymes: -??ki

Adjective

wonky (comparative wonkier, superlative wonkiest)

1. Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.

   Synonyms: awry, lonkie, misaligned, skew-whiff

2. (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Feeble, shaky or rickety.

   Synonym: rickety
3. (informal, computing, especially Usenet) Suffering from intermittent bugs.

   Synonyms: buggy, broken

4. (informal) Generally incorrect.

Derived terms

• wonky hole

Noun

wonky (uncountable)

1. (music) A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
   • 2015, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Robert P. Crease, Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers

     By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]

Etymology 2

wonk +? -y

Adjective

wonky (comparative wonkier, superlative wonkiest)

1. Technically worded, in the style of jargon.
   • 2009, Jesse Dale Holcomb, Faith, Science and Trust: Climate Change Framing Effects and Conservative Protestant Opinion

     Climate change is an issue that might lend itself more easily to thematic framing in the news, due to the often highly technical and wonky language required to explain it.

   • 2010, Michael Maslansky, Scott West, Gary DeMoss, David Saylor, The Language of Trust: Selling Ideas in a World of Skeptics

     McCain's message, while similar in content and equally as valid, is lost in the minutiae of “'high-risk' pools” and wonky jargon.

Anagrams

• y'know