ajar

Slightly turned or opened.not-comparable

• The door was standing ajar.

Slightly turned or opened.

• The door is ajar.

To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.intransitiveraretransitive

• A plainclothes detective knocked on a slightly ajarred door.
• Yes, and the door also lops off stairs leading to a landing on whose landing is another door on whose hinges much of this story ajars, if it hasn't jarred too much already.

Out of harmony.archaicnot-comparable

Being at variance or in contradiction to something.not-comparable

• There is a sort of unexpressed concern, / A kind of shock that sets one's heart ajar […].

To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.intransitiverare

• It clean deafened the two of us, and set all the crockery ware ajarring; and when the neighbours heard it they came running into the street to see who was getting hurt.