ajar

About 0.63 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adverb Slightly turned or opened.

   The door was standing ajar.

2. adjective Slightly turned or opened.

   The door is ajar.

3. verb To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
4. adverb Out of harmony.
5. adverb Being at variance or in contradiction to something.
6. verb To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.

Similar words

open unfastened dissonant discordant unclosed unlocked around ajog agait uphand

Often followed by

and of for to in so with as on