Log in or Sign up
  1. out of joint love

Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. adj. anatomy dislocated
  2. adj. inauspicious
  3. adj. Inappropriate; disordered.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. out of place; dislocated, as when the head of a bone slips from its socket; hence, not working well together; disordered.
  2. adv. not in proper connection or adjustment; unhinged; disordered.

Examples

  • “His sphincter's out of joint for ten years at least.”

    Noble House

  • ““You see,” said Holly Andrews, Ailsa’s friend, whose nose had been put out of joint because of the friendship which had grown up between Ailsa and the minister’s wife, “we all feel we’re wasting our time with an amateur fi lm when we’re in the real thing.””

    Death of a Scriptwriter

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

reverse dictionary (24)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. dislocate
  2. luxate
  3. emarginato-excavate
  4. swivel-union
  1. unjointed
  2. disjoint
  3. joint
  4. disjointed
  1. out
  2. prominence
  3. exsect
  4. lux
  1. dislocation
  2. bonus
  3. jujutsu
  4. boulet
  1. gimbal-jawed
  2. rabbet
  3. swivel hook
  4. crossbar
  1. economy
  2. exarticulate
  3. stuffing box
  4. tube-drawing

Wordmap

(beta)

Word visualization

Lists

‘out of joint’ hasn't been added to any lists yet.

Comments

No comments yet...

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

Tweets

Looking for tweets for out of joint.

‘out of joint’ has been looked up 211 times, and is not a valid Scrabble word.