ajar

adverb3

1. •
   Slightly turned or opened.

   • The door was standing ajar.
2. •
   Being at variance or in contradiction to something.

   • There is a sort of unexpressed concern, / A kind of shock that sets one's heart ajar […]. — 1819
3. •
   (no longer used) Out of harmony.

adjective1

1. •
   Slightly turned or opened.

   • The door is ajar.

verb2

1. •
   (rare) To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.

   • A plainclothes detective knocked on a slightly ajarred door. — 1970
2. •
   (rare) To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.

   • 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. — 1907

noun1

1. •
   Synonym of Adjaran.

   • The Ajars are Muslim Georgians and have their own autonomous republic within Georgia, but Georgians insist that there are no important distinctions between Ajars and Georgians […] — 1995