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out of kelter

out of kelter is the alternative spelling of out of kilter.

Meaning of out of kilter

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Askew, disturbed; not adjusted or working properly; out of order.
    • I stayed up late to watch a movie, and my entire sleeping schedule has been out of kilter ever since.

Questions about out of kelter

What is out of kelter the alternative spelling of?
Out of kelter is the alternative spelling of out of kilter.

Words near out of kelter in the dictionary

  1. Out of India hypothesis
  2. Out of India theory
  3. out of it
  4. out of joint
  5. out of keeping with
  6. out of kelter
  7. out of key
  8. out of kilter
  9. out of line
  10. out of luck
  11. out of nowhere

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Adapted from Wiktionary: out of kelter (page history and authors); out of kilter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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