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ajar

adv
/əˈd͡ʒɑː/UK/əˈd͡ʒɑɹ/US

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.

  1. derived from cierr
  2. inherited from ajar

Definitions

  1. Slightly turned or opened.

    • The door was standing ajar.

  2. To turn or open slightly

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

    • A plainclothes detective knocked on a slightly ajarred door.
    • Yes, and the door also lops off stairs leading to a landing on whose landing is another door on whose hinges much of this story ajars, if it hasn't jarred too much already.
    • Just as the gates fully ajarred themselves, the Lamborghini soared through them, and out into the freedom of the poorly defined road.

  3. Out of harmony.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Being at variance or in contradiction to something.

      • There is a sort of unexpressed concern, / A kind of shock that sets one's heart ajar […].

    2. To show variance or contradiction with something

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

      • It clean deafened the two of us, and set all the crockery ware ajarring ; and when the neighbours heard it they came running into the street to see who was getting hurt.

    3. Synonym of Adjaran.

      • The Ajars are Muslim Georgians and have their own autonomous republic within Georgia, but Georgians insist that there are no important distinctions between Ajars and Georgians […]
      • During World War II Stalin drew up a plan for the deportation of the Muslim Ajars, but the plan was postponed and finally abandoned at his death in 1953.
      • Of these, the Georgian Ajars were the most eager to rise up against Russia, but the Ottomans also hoped for revolts in Daghestan and Azerbaijan upon entry of their troops.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA