English
ajar
see also: Ajar
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /əˈd͡ʒɑː/
  • (America) IPA: /əˈd͡ʒɑɹ/
Adverb

ajar (not comparable)

  1. Slightly turned or opened.
    The door was standing ajar.
Translations Adjective

ajar

  1. Slightly turned or opened.
    The door is ajar.
Translations Verb

ajar (ajars, present participle ajarring; past and past participle ajarred)

  1. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
    • 1970, John H. Evans, Mercer County law journal, Volume 10,
      A plainclothes detective knocked on a slightly ajarred door.
Adverb

ajar (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Out of harmony.
  2. Being at variance or in contradiction to something.
    • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.14:
      There is a sort of unexpressed concern, / A kind of shock that sets one's heart ajar [...].
Verb

ajar (ajars, present participle ajarring; past and past participle ajarred)

  1. (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.
    • 1907, The English Illustrated Magazine, Volume 36,
      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.
Ajar
Noun

ajar (plural ajars)

  1. A member of an ethnographic group of Georgians.
    • 1995, Timothy J. Colton, Robert C. Tucker, Patterns in Post-Soviet Leadership,
      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 […]


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