| Main Entry: | diagonal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angled |
Synonyms: |
askew, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, cater-cornered, catty-cornered, cornerways, cross, crossways, crosswise, inclining, kitty-cornered, oblique, skewing, slanted, slanting, transversal, transverse |
| Main Entry: | oblique |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slanting; at an angle |
Synonyms: |
angled, askance, askew, aslant, asymmetrical, awry, bent, cater-cornered, crooked, diagonal, distorted, diverging, inclined, inclining, leaning, on the bias, pitched, pitching, sideways, skew, slanted, sloped, sloping, strained, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, turned, twisted |
| Notes: | oblique means slanting or inclined in direction or course or position - or misleading; opaque means not transmitting or reflecting light - or not clearly understood or expressed |
| Main Entry: | slant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | angle, slope |
Synonyms: |
camber, cant, declination, diagonal, grade, gradient, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, pitch, rake, ramp, tilt |
Antonyms: |
evenness, level |
| Main Entry: | slope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slant, tilt |
Synonyms: |
abruptness, bank, bend, bevel, bias, cant, declination, declivity, deflection, descent, deviation, diagonal, downgrade, gradient, hill, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, obliqueness, obliquity, pitch, ramp, rise, rising ground, shelf, skew, steepness, swag, sway, tip |
Antonyms: |
evenness, level |
| Main Entry: | zigzag |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moving side to side |
Synonyms: |
askew, awry, bent, crinkled, crooked, devious, diagonal, erratic, fluctuating, inclined, indirect, irregular, jagged, meandering, oblique, oscillating, rambling, serrated, sinuous, sloping, snaking, tortuous, transverse, twisted, twisting, undulating, waggling, winding |
Antonyms: |
straight |
| Main Entry: | transverse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crosswise |
Synonyms: |
cross, diagonal, intersecting, oblique, slanting, transversal |
| Main Entry: | transverse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | across |
Synonyms: |
alternate, crosswise, diagonal, horizontal, oblique |
| Main Entry: | beveled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slanted |
Synonyms: |
chamfered, diagonal, oblique, slanting, sloping |
| Main Entry: | transversal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | transverse |
Synonyms: |
cross, crossing, crosswise, diagonal, intersecting, oblique, slanting, thwart, traverse |
| Main Entry: | slope |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
Related
Adjectives: |
abrupt, acclivous, ajee, anticlinal, antiparallel, ascending, askew, aslant, athwart, awry, battered, bevel, breakneck, calculated to, canted, clinal, conducive, crooked, curved, declining, declivous, descending, devex, diagonal, downhill, falling, in a fair way to, inclined, indirect, knock, oblique, out of the perpendicular, plagiedral, precipitous, raked back, recumbent, rising, skew, skygodlin, slant, slantendicular, sloping, steep, subservient, tilted, transversal, transverse, uphill, wry
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