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English
Etymology
a- + symmetrical
Pronunciation
Adjective
asymmetrical (comparative more asymmetrical, superlative most asymmetrical)
- Not symmetrical.
- (of a question) Presenting a false dilemma, or a choice between two things which are not opposites.
2000 May 10, Aaron Sorkin, “Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics”, in The West Wing, season 1, episode 21, spoken by Toby Ziegler (Richard Schiff):Question six is asymmetrical: "Are things going in the right direction or on the wrong track?"
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not symmetrical
- Albanian: asimetrik (sq)
- Arabic: غَيْر مُتَمَاثِل m (ḡayr mutamāṯil), غَيْر مُتَمَاثِلَة f (ḡayr mutamāṯila), غَيْر مُتَكَافِئ m (ḡayr mutakāfiʔ), غَيْر مُتَكَافِئَة f (ḡayr mutakāfiʔa)
- Asturian: asimétricu
- Bulgarian: несиметричен (bg) (nesimetričen)
- Catalan: asimètric
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不對稱／不对称 (zh) (bùduìchèn)
- Czech: asymetrický
- Danish: asymmetrisk
- Dutch: asymmetrisch (nl)
- Esperanto: nesimetria
- Finnish: asymmetrinen (fi), epäsymmetrinen (fi)
- French: asymétrique (fr)
- Galician: asimétrico
- Georgian: ასიმეტრიული (asimeṭriuli)
- German: asymmetrisch (de)
- Greek: ασύμμετρος (el) (asýmmetros)
- Icelandic: missamhverfur m, mishverfur m
- Italian: asimetrico
- Japanese: 非対称的 (ひたいしょうてき, hi-taishō-teki)
- Kazakh: бейсимметриялық (beisimmetriälyq)
- Maori: tipirori, hikuwaru, tipihori
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: asymmetrisk (no)
- Nynorsk: asymmetrisk
- Persian: نامتقارن (fa) (nâ-moteqâren)
- Polish: asymetryczny (pl), niesymetryczny (pl)
- Portuguese: assimétrico (pt)
- Romanian: asimetric (ro), nesimetric
- Russian: несимметри́чный (ru) (nesimmetríčnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: асимѐтричан
- Roman: asimètričan (sh)
- Spanish: asimétrico (es)
- Swedish: asymmetrisk (sv), osymmetrisk
- Tagalog: diparianyuin, tabingi
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