i Register
In some senses, ajar is marked as archaic, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adv
Slightly turned or opened.
The door was standing ajar.
adj
Slightly turned or opened.
The door is ajar.
I know—for Death, who comes for me From regions of the blest afar, Where there is nothing to deceive, Hath left his iron gate ajar, […]
verb
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.
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.