Ajar

Definition: Ajar

Ajar

Adjective

1. Slightly open; "the door was ajar".

Date "ajar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
AJAr	English	American Journal of Archaeology	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Ajar

Synonym: ajar(p) (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discord	Adjective: discordant; disagreeing; Verb: out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient; unreconciled, unpacified; contentious.
Opening	Adjective: open; perforated; Verb: perforate; wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped; oscitant, gaping, yawning; patent.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ajar

English words defined with "ajar": On the jar. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ajar": Booby-trap ♦ Proboscis. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Ajar" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Spanish (muss, rumple).

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Of doors left ajar ("Wish I Could Fly"; performing artist: Roxette)
Movie/TV Titles	Ibn al ajar (1953) Aroussa lel ajar (1946)
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Domain	Title
Books	Gates Ajar (reference) Inside Ajar Cottage : Bermuda (reference) Kardiologi anak : buku ajar (reference) Romain Gary/Emile Ajar (reference) The Door Ajar (reference) (more book examples)
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Play	Caption
	Doorknob; latch; handle; opening; open; ajar; unlocked; unlock.
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Author	Quotation
Richard Feynman	If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	A door still more icy than that of winter was ajar.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk. Asked how he knew that an elephant was going on a journey, the illustrious Jo. Miller cast a reproachful look upon his tormentor, and answered, absently: "When it is ajar," and threw himself from a high promontory into the sea. Thus perished in his pride the most famous humorist of antiquity, leaving to mankind a heritage of woe! No successor worthy of the title has appeared, though Mr. Edward bok, of The Ladies' Home Journal, is much respected for the purity and sweetness of his personal character.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Ajar" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ajar" is used about 133 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	133	27,614

Expressions using "ajar": be ajar ♦ come ajar ♦ leave ajar ♦ set ajar. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "ajar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		paksa e hapur, i hapur (blunt, champaign, direct, exposed, forthright, Frank, free, heart-to-heart, honest, hospitable, low, naked, open, open-hearted, overground, overt, pervious, plain, public, straightforward, unclosed, uncovered). (various references)

Arabic		‏مفتوح جزئيا, ‏غير منسجم مع, ‏غير متناسق (unmatched). (various references)

Bulgarian		открехнато, открехнат (half-open, on the jar), полуотворен (half-open, on the jar), полузатворено, полузатворен (half-closed). (various references)

Chinese		半开. (various references)

Czech		pootevřený. (various references)

Dutch		op een kier staand. (various references)

Esperanto		malfermetita. (various references)

Farsi		نیم باز. (various references)

Finnish		raollaan. (various references)

French		entrouvert, entrebâillé. (various references)

Frisian		oanstean (be ajar). (various references)

German		angelehnt (to). (various references)

Greek		μισάνοιχτη πόρτα, μισοανοιγμένοσ, ημίκλειστοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		פתוח במקצת. (various references)

Hungarian		félig nyitva (on the jar), félig nyitott (at the jar, half-open, on the jar). (various references)

Indonesian		terenggang, genggang (fissure, slightly open, split), berganggang. (various references)

Italian		socchiuso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		開けっ�"�し (leaving open or ajar), 開けっぱなし (leaving open or ajar). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あけっぱなし (leaving open or ajar). (various references)

Manx		lieh-foshlit, foshlit (agape, blatant, downright; free-spoken, exploded; overt, exposed, extrovert; forthcoming; blank, extrovert; forthcoming; blank as credit, liable, open, open-necked, patent, unfastened), beggan-foshlit. (various references)

Pig Latin		ajaray

Polish		otwarty (open). (various references)

Portuguese		perturbado (distraught, disturbed, troubled, troublous, unquiet, unsettled), nervoso (agitated, bustling, fiducial, fussy, hysterical, jumpy, nervous, nervy, on edge, restive, skittish, tremulant, tremulous, uptight), entreaberto, em desacordo (inconspicuous, the odds are, unconforming), em contradição, desarmonioso (disharmonize, inharmonious). (various references)

Romanian		nearmonios (disharmonious, incongruous, inharmonic), discordant (clashing, conflicting, discordant, dissonant, grating, inharmonic, jarring, untuneful), cãscat (absent minded, Agape, gaping, open mouthed, stupid, yawn, yawning), întredeschis (half-open, on the jar). (various references)

Russian		приоткрытый, приотворенный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		u neslozi, pritvoreno, odškrinut. (various references)

Spanish		entreabierto (half-closed). (various references)

Swedish		på glänt. (various references)

Turkish		aralık (aperture, crack, daylight, Dec, December, gangway, gap, half-open, hiatus, Interspace, interstice, interval, Lacuna, rift, separation, space, spacing, time), ahenksiz olarak, yarı açık, sarsıntılı olarak. (various references)

Ukranian		прочинений. (various references)

Vietnamese		xích mích (out), mở hé, bất ho� (discordant, loggerhead, misunderstandingly), đóng hờ. (various references)

Welsh		cilagored. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old English	450-1100	cier. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Ajar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aaaarg, aar, Aarg, Aarp, abaar, abar, acar, adja, Aear, Ahar, aher, Ahrar, aja, ajab, ajag, Ajai, Ajaj, ajam, ajan, ajars, ajav, ajaw, ajay, ajen, ajers, ajet, ajeu, ajew, ajex, Ajfan, Aji, ajia, ajin, Ajirno, Ajmal, ajo, Ajoe, ajor, ajore, ajort, aju, ajur, ajut, Ajwaad, akar, Akary, alar, amar, amari, amaro, Amjab, Amjawr, anar, Anjad, anjer, apar, Aqj, arar, asar, Atar, avar, awar, ayar, ayare, ayart, azar, caja, cajra, eja, Fajardo, haja, Ija, ijar, Jaar, Jabaar, Jabar, jacare, jaer, Jafar, jair, Jamarj, jaor, jara, Jawari, kaja, Majabr, majar, Majbari, majjal, nahar, Najaar, Najara, Najjar, oja, ojar, Pajari, Rajaori, Sajjad, tajjal. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ajar" (pronounced ujÄ"r)
3	-j Ä" r	jar.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: raja.
	Words within the letters "a-a-j-r"
	-1 letter: jar, raj.
	-2 letters: aa, ar.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-j-r"
	+1 letter: jagra, rajah, rajas.
	+2 letters: jagras, jaguar, jarina, jarrah, rajahs, svaraj, swaraj.
	+3 letters: alforja, aparejo, harijan, jacamar, jaggary, jaguars, jarhead, jarinas, jarrahs, jemadar, mojarra.
	+4 letters: alforjas, aparejos, carcajou, harijans, jacamars, jackaroo, jacquard, janisary, janizary, japanner, jarheads, jemadars, maharaja, marjoram, maryjane, mojarras, svarajes, swarajes.
	+5 letters: amberjack, carcajous, carjacker, jaborandi, jacaranda, jackaroos, jackstraw, jacquards, jaggaries, jailbreak, janissary, japanners, jayhawker, jaywalker, maharajah, maharajas, marijuana, marjorams, maryjanes, panjandra, swarajist.
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