Usually means: State of alignment or order.
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  1. kilter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. kilter: Merriam-Webster
  3. kilter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. kilter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. kilter: Collins English Dictionary
  6. kilter: Vocabulary.com
  7. Kilter, kilter: Wordnik
  8. kilter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. kilter: Wiktionary
  10. kilter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. kilter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. kilter: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. kilter: Dictionary.com
  14. kilter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Kilter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Kilter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. kilter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. kilter: Rhymezone
  19. Kilter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. KILTER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. kilter: FreeDictionary.org
  22. kilter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. kilter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Kilter: World Wide Words

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kilter: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. kilter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Kilter: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Kilter: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (kilter)

▸ noun:  (chiefly in the negative) Chiefly in out of kilter: (good) condition, form, or order; fettle.
▸ noun:  (card games, chiefly poker) A hand of playing cards which is useless.

Similar:
kind, inbend, eclectick, arrangement, manner, incliner, thrown, knock, reality, felt, more...

Opposite:
out of balance, off-balance, askew, unsteady, unstable

Types:
off-kilter, unbalanced, lopsided, asymmetrical, out of whack, more...

Phrases:
off kilter, throw out of kilter, out of kilter, kilter out of, slightly out of kilter, more...


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Similar:
kind, inbend, eclectick, arrangement, manner, incliner, thrown, knock, reality, felt, more...

Opposite:
out of balance, off-balance, askew, unsteady, unstable

Types:
off-kilter, unbalanced, lopsided, asymmetrical, out of whack, more...

Phrases:
off kilter, throw out of kilter, out of kilter, kilter out of, slightly out of kilter, more...



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