LekhoriLekhoriSlightly turned or opened.
The door was standing ajar.
Out of harmony.
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.
To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.
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 t...
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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.