kilter

The word “kilter” has 2 syllables: kil-ter

It's pronounced as /ˈkɪl.tər/


What is synonym and antonym for kilter?

In the thesaurus, “kilter” has 28 synonyms and 3 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for kilter along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for kilter

  • commission
  • condition
  • estate
  • fettle
  • fitness
  • footing
  • form
  • health
  • keeping
  • nick
  • order
  • pass
  • phase
  • picture
  • posture
  • practice
  • practise
  • rank
  • repair
  • scene
  • shape
  • situation
  • stage
  • standing
  • state
  • status
  • trim
  • whack

Antonyms for kilter

  • disorder
  • disorganization
  • disrepair

Meanings of kilter

  • noun
    1. (usually in the negative) (Good) condition, form, or order; fettle.
    2. A hand of playing cards which is useless; a dead man's hand.

Example Sentences

  • After the incident, everything felt out of kilter, and I struggled to regain my focus.
  • The constant changes in the schedule threw our plans completely out of kilter.
  • She realized her emotions were a bit off kilter after the stressful week at work.
  • His sense of humor was often kilter, making it difficult for others to understand his jokes.
  • When the team is not working together, the project can go out of kilter and miss deadlines.

On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to kilter, such as: commission, condition, disorder, disorganization, disrepair, estate, fettle.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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kerflooey

  • bankrupt
  • bonkers
  • broken
  • busted
  • collapsing
  • declining
  • defective
  • destroyed
  • disabled
  • down
  • failed
  • failing
  • fallen apart
  • faulty
  • flopping
  • flunking
  • folding
  • futureless
  • gone to pieces
  • haywire
  • hopeless
  • in disrepair
  • in need of repair
  • in the shop
  • inauspicious
  • inoperable
  • kaput
  • kaputt
  • malfunctioning
  • no-good
  • not functioning
  • not working
  • on the blink
  • on the bum
  • on the fritz
  • on the shelf
  • out
  • out of commission
  • out of kilter
  • out of order
  • out of whack
  • ruined
  • run down
  • shot
  • slipping
  • slumping
  • spent
  • unpromising
  • unsuccessful
  • waning
  • washing-out
  • wrecked

damaged

  • abused
  • afflicted
  • aggrieved
  • annihilated
  • banged up
  • bashed
  • battered
  • beat-up
  • bent
  • blemished
  • blew out
  • blighted
  • bloodied
  • botched
  • broke
  • broken
  • bruised
  • busted
  • clobbered
  • compromised
  • contused
  • crabbed
  • creased
  • crippled
  • crushed
  • cut
  • dashed
  • decimated
  • defaced
  • deficient
  • demolished
  • dented
  • desolated
  • destroyed
  • deteriorated
  • devastated
  • did in
  • dinged
  • dinted
  • disabled
  • disfigured
  • down
  • endamaged
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • eroded
  • flawed
  • flubbed
  • fouled-up
  • fragmental
  • fragmentary
  • gashed
  • glitched
  • gone
  • gored
  • grazed
  • half
  • halfway
  • hamstrung
  • harmed
  • hurt
  • impaired
  • imperfect
  • in need of repair
  • in poor condition
  • in smithereens
  • incomplete
  • injured
  • kaput
  • lacerated
  • laid up
  • lamed
  • loused up
  • maimed
  • maltreated
  • mangled
  • marred
  • messed-up
  • mucked up
  • mutilated
  • nicked
  • no-go
  • on the blink
  • on the fritz
  • out of action
  • out of kilter
  • out of whack
  • partial
  • pulverized
  • queered
  • razed
  • ruined
  • run-down
  • scalded
  • scarred
  • scathed
  • scoured
  • scourged
  • scraped
  • screwed-up
  • shattered
  • shot
  • sketchy
  • smashed
  • snafued
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • strained
  • sunk
  • tarnished
  • tore
  • tore down
  • tormented
  • tortured
  • totaled
  • totalled
  • unassembled
  • uncompleted
  • undermined
  • unfinished
  • unsound
  • vitiated
  • washed out
  • wasted
  • weakened
  • wiped out
  • wounded
  • wrecked

form

  • absorb
  • accumulate
  • achieve
  • acquire
  • act as
  • actualize
  • adopt
  • air
  • amenities
  • anatomy
  • appear
  • appearance
  • application
  • approach
  • appropriateness
  • arise
  • arrange
  • arrangement
  • arrive
  • articulation
  • assemble
  • associate
  • attain
  • attention
  • attentiveness
  • attitude
  • be
  • bearing
  • become a reality
  • become visible
  • begin
  • behavior
  • being
  • blank
  • block out
  • blueprint
  • break
  • breathe
  • breed
  • bring about
  • bring up
  • build
  • by the book
  • by the numbers
  • canon
  • care
  • carefulness
  • carriage
  • cast
  • celebration
  • ceremonial
  • ceremony
  • channels
  • character
  • chart
  • civilities
  • civility
  • class
  • coalesce
  • cohere
  • combine
  • come on
  • commence
  • complement
  • complete
  • compose
  • composition
  • comprise
  • conceive
  • concoct
  • condense
  • condition
  • conduct
  • configuration
  • conformation
  • conjoin
  • conjugate
  • connect
  • constellation
  • constitute
  • constitution
  • construct
  • construction
  • consummate
  • continue
  • contour
  • contrive
  • convenance
  • convention
  • cook up
  • correctitude
  • correctness
  • couple
  • courteousness
  • courtesy
  • craft
  • create
  • crystalize
  • crystallize
  • cultivate
  • custom
  • cut
  • data sheet
  • dawn
  • decency
  • decorousness
  • decorum
  • demeanor
  • deportment
  • description
  • design
  • develop
  • devise
  • die
  • dignity
  • discretion
  • document
  • doll
  • done thing
  • dream up
  • dummy
  • embodiment
  • embody
  • embrace
  • emerge
  • endure
  • engender
  • envisage
  • epitomize
  • erect
  • establish
  • estate
  • etiquette
  • eventuate
  • exist
  • expedient
  • fabricate
  • fall into place
  • fashion
  • father
  • fettle
  • figure
  • figure in
  • filing
  • finish
  • fitness
  • fix
  • footing
  • forge
  • formalities
  • formality
  • format
  • formation
  • foster
  • found
  • frame
  • framework
  • fuse
  • gain
  • game
  • game plan
  • gentilesse
  • gentility
  • geometry
  • get
  • getup
  • give character
  • goodness
  • grace
  • graces
  • graciousness
  • grade
  • ground plan
  • grow
  • guise
  • habit
  • hammer out
  • handcraft
  • harden
  • harmony
  • health
  • hew
  • high-mindedness
  • honesty
  • honor
  • how
  • imagine
  • incarnate
  • incorporate
  • institute
  • instruct
  • instrument
  • integrate
  • integrity
  • intrigue
  • invent
  • jell
  • join
  • keeping
  • kilter
  • knock off
  • knock out
  • last
  • law
  • layout
  • letter
  • line
  • live
  • make
  • make up
  • makeup
  • manifestation
  • manikin
  • mannequin
  • manner
  • mannerliness
  • manners
  • mannikin
  • manufacture
  • materialize
  • mature
  • method
  • methodology
  • mien
  • mint
  • mode
  • model
  • modus operandi
  • mold
  • morality
  • mores
  • motif
  • move
  • nick
  • nourish
  • nurture
  • object
  • observance
  • obtain
  • order
  • orderliness
  • ordonnance
  • organization
  • organize
  • originate
  • outline
  • paper
  • pass
  • pattern
  • perfect
  • persist
  • person
  • personify
  • phase
  • phenomenon
  • physique
  • picture
  • placement
  • plan
  • pleasantries
  • plot
  • poise
  • policy
  • polish
  • politeness
  • politesse
  • pose
  • posture
  • practice
  • practise
  • precept
  • prefabricate
  • presence
  • probity
  • proceeding
  • process
  • produce
  • profile
  • program
  • project
  • promote
  • proportion
  • proprieties
  • propriety
  • protocol
  • prudence
  • put together
  • put up
  • questionnaire
  • raise
  • rank
  • reach
  • rear
  • recipe
  • rectitude
  • refashion
  • refinement
  • regulation
  • remake
  • remanufacture
  • repair
  • righteousness
  • rightness
  • rise
  • rite
  • ritual
  • ropes
  • route
  • routine
  • rule
  • rules
  • scene
  • scheme
  • school
  • seemliness
  • semblance
  • serve as
  • service
  • set
  • set in
  • set up
  • settle
  • setup
  • shape
  • shape up
  • sheet
  • shell
  • shift
  • show up
  • silhouette
  • situation
  • skeleton
  • solemnity
  • solidify
  • sort
  • species
  • spring
  • stage
  • stamp
  • standard
  • standing
  • start
  • status
  • step
  • straightness
  • strategy
  • structure
  • style
  • subsist
  • substantiate
  • supplement
  • survive
  • symmetry
  • system
  • tack
  • tactics
  • take in
  • take on
  • take on character
  • take shape
  • teach
  • technique
  • theme
  • thing
  • throw together
  • throw up
  • torso
  • trace
  • tradition
  • train
  • trick
  • trim
  • turn out
  • unify
  • unite
  • uprightness
  • usage
  • variety
  • virtue
  • virtuousness
  • visualize
  • way
  • wont
  • work
  • writ

unbalanced

  • aberrant
  • agitated
  • amok
  • amuck
  • annoyed
  • ape
  • around the bend
  • askew
  • asymmetric
  • asymmetrical
  • awry
  • ballistic
  • balmy
  • bananas
  • barmy
  • bats
  • batty
  • bedlam
  • berserk
  • bonkers
  • bothered
  • brainsick
  • bughouse
  • certifiable
  • cockeyed
  • confused
  • crackbrained
  • cracked
  • crackers
  • crackpot
  • cranky
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • delirious
  • delusional
  • delusionary
  • demented
  • depressed
  • deranged
  • discomposed
  • disordered
  • disproportionate
  • disquieted
  • distracted
  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • doddering
  • doddery
  • dotty
  • eccentric
  • erratic
  • fey
  • fixated
  • flaky
  • foolish
  • frantic
  • freaky
  • frenzied
  • fruity
  • gaga
  • haywire
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • infirm
  • insane
  • insecure
  • irrational
  • irregular
  • irritated
  • jiggling
  • jiggly
  • kinky
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • loco
  • locoed
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
  • loony tunes
  • loopy
  • lopsided
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • maddened
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • mental
  • meshuga
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • moonstruck
  • neurotic
  • nobody home
  • non compos mentis
  • not all there
  • not balanced
  • nuclear
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • obsessed
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • odd
  • oddball
  • off
  • off-balance
  • off-kilter
  • out to lunch
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • perturbed
  • pixilated
  • pixillated
  • potty
  • precarious
  • psycho
  • psychotic
  • queer
  • raving
  • rickety
  • rocky
  • scatty
  • schizoid
  • schizophrenic
  • screwy
  • senseless
  • shaky
  • sociopathic
  • staggery
  • strange
  • teched
  • teetering
  • tetched
  • tippy
  • tipsy
  • top-heavy
  • tottering
  • tottery
  • touched
  • treacherous
  • troubled
  • unequal
  • uneven
  • unglued
  • unhinged
  • unreasonable
  • unscrewed
  • unsettled
  • unsound
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • unstrung
  • unsymmetrical
  • upset
  • vexed
  • vext
  • wabbly
  • wacko
  • wacky
  • wavery
  • whacko
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • witless
  • wobbly
  • wonky
  • wud

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