ajar

Meanings

1. Slightly turned or opened.

1. Slightly turned or opened.

1. To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.

1. Out of harmony.
2. Being at variance or in contradiction to something.

1. To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.

1. Synonym of Adjaran.

Etymology

From Middle English ajar, on char (“on [the] turn”), from on (“on”) + char (“turn, occasion”), from Old English ċierr, cyrr (“turn”), from ċierran (“to turn, convert”), equivalent to a- + char. Akin to Scots char, chare (“to turn, cause to turn”), Dutch akerre, kier (“ajar”), German kehren (“to turn”). See char.