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Webster 1913 Edition

Asymmetrical

{

Asˊym-met′ric

,

Asˊym-met′ri-cal

, }

Adj.

[See

.]

1.

Incommensurable.

[Obs.]

2.

Not symmetrical; wanting proportion; esp., not bilaterally symmetrical.

Huxley.

Definition 2024

asymmetrical

asymmetrical

English

Adjective

asymmetrical ‎(comparative more asymmetrical, superlative most asymmetrical)

Not symmetrical.
(of a question) Presenting a false dilemma, or a choice between two things which are not opposites.
Question six is asymmetrical: "Are things going in the right direction or on the wrong track?" (The West Wing, Season 1, Episode 21, Toby)

Translations

not symmetrical

Albanian: asimetrik (sq)
Arabic: غَيْر مُتَمَاثِل m ‎(ḡayr mutamāṯil), غَيْر مُتَمَاثِلَة f ‎(ḡayr mutamāṯila), غَيْر مُتَكَافِئ m ‎(ḡayr mutakāfiʾ), غَيْر مُتَكَافِئَة f ‎(ḡayr mutakāfiʾa)
Asturian: asimétricu
Catalan: asimètric
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不對稱 (zh), 不对称 (zh) ‎(bùduìchèng)
Danish: asymmetrisk
Dutch: asymmetrisch (nl)
Esperanto: nesimetria
French: asymétrique (fr)
Galician: asimétrico
German: asymmetrisch (de)

Icelandic: missamhverfur m, mishverfur m
Italian: asimetrico
Japanese: 非対称的 ‎(ひたいしょうてき, hi-taishō-teki)
Maori: tipirori, hikuwaru, tipihori
Norwegian: asymmetrisk
Persian: نا‌‌متقارن ‎(nâ-moteqâren)
Portuguese: assimétrico (pt)
Romanian: asimetric (ro) m, n, nesimetric m, n
Russian: асимметри́чный (ru) ‎(asimmetríčnyj)
Serbo-Croatian: asimètričan (sh)
Spanish: asimétrico (es)
Swedish: asymmetrisk (sv), osymmetrisk
Tagalog: diparianyuin, tabingi

Synonyms