Exact Match:
- obliquely
- at an oblique angle; "the sun shone aslant into his face"
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- indirectly
collapse - not in a forthright manner; "he answered very indirectly" related words >
- at an angle,
- by proxy,
- circlewise,
- circuitously,
- deceitfully,
- deviately,
- deviously,
- digressively,
- divagationally,
- divergently,
- excursively,
- fraudulently,
- furtively,
- guilefully,
- in behalf of,
- insidiously,
- obliquely,
- on one side,
- round about,
- shiftily,
- sideling,
- sidelong,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- surreptitiously,
- to one side,
- treacherously,
- trickily,
- underhandedly
- about,
- again,
- all over,
- all round,
- all through,
- anticlockwise,
- around,
- at about,
- back,
- backward,
- by,
- by way of,
- circlewise,
- circuitously,
- clockwise,
- close,
- close about,
- counterclockwise,
- deviously,
- every which way,
- everywhence,
- everywhere,
- everywhither,
- from every quarter,
- head over heels,
- heels over head,
- in a circle,
- in a spin,
- in a whirl,
- in all directions,
- in circles,
- in every quarter,
- in reverse,
- in the neighborhood,
- in the vicinity,
- indirectly,
- obliquely,
- on every side,
- over,
- passing by,
- passing through,
- round,
- round and round,
- through,
- throughout,
- via,
- widdershins
- across
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- transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across"
- to the opposite side; "the football field was 300 feet across" related words >
- across the grain,
- against,
- astraddle,
- astride,
- athwart,
- athwartships,
- bendwise,
- beyond,
- bias,
- biased,
- biaswise,
- catercorner,
- catercornered,
- confronting,
- contrariwise,
- contrawise,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- diagonal,
- facing,
- fronting,
- horseback,
- in front of,
- in opposition to,
- kittycorner,
- oblique,
- obliquely,
- on,
- on horseback,
- over against,
- overthwart,
- past,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- slant,
- straddle,
- straddle-legged,
- straddleback,
- thwart,
- thwartly,
- thwartways,
- toward,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- transversely,
- traverse,
- versus
- crosswise
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- in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross
- lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction; "a crosswise street"; "the crosswise dimension"
- not in the intended manner; "things are going crosswise" related words >
- across,
- across the grain,
- athwart,
- athwartships,
- awkward,
- bendwise,
- bias,
- biased,
- biaswise,
- bulky,
- catercorner,
- catercornered,
- choking,
- clumsy,
- constrictive,
- contrariwise,
- contrary,
- contrawise,
- counterproductive,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crossing,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- cumbersome,
- diagonal,
- hindering,
- hindersome,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- impractical,
- in the way,
- inconvenient,
- inhibiting,
- inhibitive,
- interrupting,
- interruptive,
- kittycorner,
- oblique,
- obliquely,
- obstructing,
- obstructive,
- obstruent,
- occlusive,
- overthwart,
- perverse,
- ponderous,
- repressive,
- restrictive,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- slant,
- stifling,
- strangling,
- suppressive,
- thwart,
- thwartly,
- thwartways,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- transversely,
- traverse,
- troublesome,
- unhandy,
- unmanageable,
- unwieldy
- across,
- across the grain,
- athwart,
- athwartships,
- bar,
- bend,
- bendwise,
- bias,
- biased,
- biaswise,
- catercorner,
- catercornered,
- contrariwise,
- contrawise,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- cross bitt,
- cross-grained,
- crossarm,
- crossbar,
- crosscut,
- crossed,
- crossing,
- crosspiece,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- cruciate,
- cut across,
- decussate,
- diagonal,
- doubletree,
- intercross,
- intersect,
- kittycorner,
- lie across,
- oblique,
- oblique angle,
- oblique figure,
- oblique line,
- obliquely,
- overthwart,
- rhomboid,
- scratch comma,
- separatrix,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- singletree,
- slant,
- slash,
- solidus,
- swingletree,
- thwart,
- thwartly,
- thwartways,
- transept,
- transom,
- transversal,
- transversely,
- traverse,
- virgule,
- whippletree
- athwart
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- at right angles to the center line of a ship related words >
- across,
- across the grain,
- adverse to,
- against,
- against the grain,
- against the tide,
- against the wind,
- at cross-purposes,
- at cross-purposes with,
- at daggers,
- at daggers drawn,
- at issue,
- at odds,
- at variance,
- at war with,
- athwartships,
- bendwise,
- beyond,
- bias,
- biased,
- biaswise,
- catercorner,
- catercornered,
- con,
- contra,
- contrariwise,
- contrawise,
- counter,
- counter to,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- dead against,
- diagonal,
- eyeball-to-eyeball,
- in conflict with,
- in confrontation,
- in hostile array,
- in opposition,
- in opposition to,
- kittycorner,
- oblique,
- obliquely,
- opposed to,
- over,
- overthwart,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- slant,
- thwart,
- thwartly,
- thwartways,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- transversely,
- traverse,
- up in arms,
- versus,
- vis-a-vis,
- with crossed bayonets
- sideways
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- toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows"
- with one side forward or to the front; "turned sideways to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise" related words >
- across,
- across the grain,
- aside,
- askance,
- askant,
- aslant,
- aslope,
- asquint,
- at an angle,
- athwart,
- athwartships,
- breadthwise,
- broad side foremost,
- broadside,
- broadside on,
- broadways,
- broadwise,
- circuitously,
- contrariwise,
- contrawise,
- crabwise,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- depthwise,
- deviately,
- deviously,
- digressively,
- divagationally,
- divergently,
- edgeway,
- edgeways,
- edgewise,
- excursively,
- flanking,
- glancing,
- glancingly,
- indirectly,
- laterad,
- lateral,
- laterally,
- lee,
- leeward,
- next-beside,
- obliquely,
- on its side,
- on one side,
- on the beam,
- overthwart,
- right and left,
- side,
- sideling,
- sidelong,
- sideward,
- sidewards,
- sideway,
- sidewise,
- sidling,
- skirting,
- slantingly,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- slaunchways,
- through,
- thwart,
- thwartly,
- thwartways,
- to one side,
- transverse,
- transversely,
- traverse,
- weather,
- widthways,
- widthwise,
- windward
- sidelong
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- inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker
- to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
- with the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- on the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground" related words >
- aside,
- askance,
- askant,
- aslant,
- aslope,
- asquint,
- at an angle,
- atilt,
- away,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- bevel,
- beveled,
- bias,
- biased,
- broadside,
- broadside on,
- canting,
- careening,
- circuitous,
- circuitously,
- covert,
- crabwise,
- deflectional,
- deviant,
- deviately,
- deviative,
- devious,
- deviously,
- digressive,
- digressively,
- divagational,
- divagationally,
- divergent,
- divergently,
- edgeway,
- edgeways,
- edgewise,
- excursive,
- excursively,
- flanking,
- glancing,
- glancingly,
- in juxtaposition,
- inclinational,
- inclinatory,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- indirect,
- indirectly,
- laterad,
- lateral,
- laterally,
- leaning,
- lee,
- leeward,
- left-handed,
- listing,
- nearby,
- next-beside,
- oblique,
- obliquely,
- on its side,
- on one side,
- on the beam,
- on the side,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- pitched,
- raking,
- recumbent,
- right and left,
- shelving,
- shelvy,
- side,
- sideling,
- sideward,
- sidewards,
- sideway,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- sidling,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- skirting,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- surreptitious,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- tipping,
- tipsy,
- to one side,
- to the side,
- weather,
- windward
- aside
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- a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
- in reserve; not for immediate use; "started setting aside money to buy a car"; "put something by for her old age"; "has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day"
- on or to one side; "step aside"; "stood aside to let him pass"; "threw the book aside"; "put her sewing aside when he entered"
- out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts); "brush the objections aside"; "pushed all doubts away"
- placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose; "had a feeling of being set apart"; "quality sets it apart"; "a day set aside for relaxing" related words >
- a huis clos,
- all,
- apart,
- askance,
- askant,
- askew,
- aslant,
- aslope,
- asquint,
- away,
- awry,
- back,
- behind closed doors,
- beside,
- between the teeth,
- broadside,
- broadside on,
- by,
- crabwise,
- discursion,
- divagation,
- downgrade,
- downhill,
- each,
- edgeway,
- edgeways,
- edgewise,
- episode,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- glancingly,
- in a whisper,
- in an aside,
- in camera,
- in chambers,
- in executive session,
- in juxtaposition,
- in privacy,
- in private,
- in private conference,
- in privy,
- in reserve,
- infix,
- injection,
- insert,
- insertion,
- insinuation,
- intercalation,
- interjection,
- interlineation,
- interlocution,
- interpolation,
- introduction,
- januis clausis,
- laterad,
- laterally,
- monodrama,
- monologue,
- monology,
- nearby,
- nigh,
- obiter dictum,
- obliquely,
- on its side,
- on one side,
- on the beam,
- on the side,
- out of earshot,
- parenthesis,
- per,
- per capita,
- privately,
- privily,
- remark,
- right and left,
- round,
- side remark,
- sideling,
- sidelong,
- sideward,
- sidewards,
- sideway,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- sidling,
- slant,
- slantingly,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- slaunchways,
- slopeways,
- soliloquy,
- solo,
- sotto voce,
- to one side,
- to the side,
- tossing-in,
- wide apart,
- wide away,
- with bated breath
- crisscross
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- a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
- marked with crossing lines
- crossing one another in opposite directions
- mark with a pattern of crossing lines; "crisscross the sheet of paper"
- mark with or consist of a pattern of crossed lines; "wrinkles crisscrossed her face"
- cross in a pattern, often random related words >
- Calvary cross,
- Christogram,
- Greek cross,
- Jerusalem cross,
- Latin cross,
- Maltese cross,
- Russian cross,
- T,
- X,
- across,
- across the grain,
- ankh,
- athwart,
- athwartships,
- avellan cross,
- bar,
- chi,
- chi-rho,
- chiasmal,
- chiasmic,
- chiastic,
- christcross,
- contrariwise,
- contrawise,
- cross,
- cross ancre,
- cross botonee,
- cross bourdonee,
- cross fitche,
- cross fleury,
- cross formee,
- cross fourchee,
- cross grignolee,
- cross moline,
- cross of Cleves,
- cross of Lorraine,
- cross patee,
- cross recercelee,
- cross-crosslet,
- cross-grained,
- crossbar,
- crossbones,
- crosscut,
- crossed,
- crossing,
- crosslet,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- cruciate,
- crucifix,
- cruciform,
- crux,
- crux ansata,
- crux capitata,
- crux decussata,
- crux gammata,
- crux immissa,
- crux ordinaria,
- cut across,
- dagger,
- decussate,
- decussated,
- ex,
- exing,
- fork cross,
- gammadion,
- intercross,
- intersect,
- intersected,
- intersecting,
- inverted cross,
- lie across,
- long cross,
- obliquely,
- overthwart,
- papal cross,
- pectoral cross,
- potent cross,
- rood,
- saltire,
- secant,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- swastika,
- tau,
- thwart,
- thwartly,
- thwartways,
- transverse,
- transversely,
- traverse,
- trefled cross,
- voided cross
- across,
- across the grain,
- against the grain,
- athwart,
- athwartships,
- bearish,
- bitchy,
- broken,
- bumpy,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- choppy,
- churlish,
- coarse,
- coarse-grained,
- contrariwise,
- contrary,
- contrawise,
- corrugated,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- difficult,
- disagreeable,
- excitable,
- feisty,
- fractious,
- froward,
- grained,
- grainy,
- granular,
- granulated,
- gritty,
- gross,
- homespun,
- horripilant,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- inequal,
- irascible,
- irregular,
- irritable,
- jolty,
- linsey-woolsey,
- mean,
- obliquely,
- ornery,
- overthwart,
- perverse,
- pimply,
- pitted,
- pocky,
- potholed,
- rank,
- ripply,
- rough,
- rough-cast,
- rough-grained,
- rough-hewn,
- ruffled,
- rutted,
- rutty,
- shagged,
- shaggy,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- snappish,
- spiteful,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- stuffy,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- testy,
- textured,
- thwart,
- thwartly,
- thwartways,
- transverse,
- transversely,
- traverse,
- ugly,
- uneven,
- unkempt,
- unlevel,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unsmooth,
- ununiform,
- waspish,
- wayward,
- wimpled,
- wrongheaded
- awry
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- away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations" related words >
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- afield,
- agee,
- agee-jawed,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- aside,
- askance,
- askant,
- askew,
- askewgee,
- aslant,
- asquint,
- astray,
- at fault,
- badly,
- beside the mark,
- cam,
- catawampous,
- catawamptious,
- cock-a-hoop,
- cockeyed,
- convulsed,
- corrupt,
- crooked,
- crookedly,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- delusive,
- deranged,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- disarranged,
- discomfited,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dislocated,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- disorganized,
- distorted,
- disturbed,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- erroneously,
- fallacious,
- false,
- faultful,
- faultily,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- haywire,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- in disorder,
- misplaced,
- not right,
- not true,
- obliquely,
- off,
- off the track,
- on the fritz,
- out,
- out of gear,
- out of joint,
- out of kelter,
- out of kilter,
- out of order,
- out of place,
- out of tune,
- out of whack,
- peccant,
- perturbed,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- roily,
- self-contradictory,
- shuffled,
- skew,
- skew-jawed,
- skewed,
- slantways,
- slaunchways,
- squinting,
- straying,
- turbid,
- turbulent,
- unfactual,
- unfavorably,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unsettled,
- untrue,
- untruly,
- upset,
- wamper-jawed,
- wide,
- wrong,
- wry,
- yaw-ways
- thwart
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- a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" related words >
- across,
- across the grain,
- annul,
- athwart,
- athwartships,
- baffle,
- balk,
- beat,
- bench,
- bendwise,
- bias,
- biased,
- biaswise,
- bilk,
- blast,
- block,
- brace,
- brave,
- bring to nothing,
- buffer,
- cancel,
- cancel out,
- cast down,
- catercorner,
- catercornered,
- challenge,
- check,
- checkmate,
- circumvent,
- come to nothing,
- confound,
- confront,
- contrariwise,
- contravene,
- contrawise,
- counter,
- counteract,
- counterbalance,
- countermand,
- counterwork,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crossing,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- curb,
- dash,
- defeat,
- defeat expectation,
- defy,
- destroy,
- diagonal,
- disappoint,
- discomfit,
- disconcert,
- discountenance,
- dish,
- disillusion,
- disrupt,
- dissatisfy,
- elude,
- flummox,
- foil,
- foul up,
- frustrate,
- gum up,
- hinder,
- impede,
- invalidate,
- kittycorner,
- knock the chocks,
- let down,
- negate,
- negativate,
- negative,
- neutralize,
- nonplus,
- nullify,
- oblique,
- obliquely,
- obstruct,
- offset,
- oppose,
- overthwart,
- perplex,
- queer,
- restrain,
- ruin,
- sabotage,
- scotch,
- short-circuit,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- slant,
- spike,
- spoil,
- stonewall,
- stop,
- stultify,
- stump,
- style,
- stymie,
- tantalize,
- tease,
- thwartly,
- thwartways,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- transversely,
- traverse,
- undo,
- upset,
- vitiate,
- void
- traverse
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- deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit
- travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day" related words >
- across,
- across the grain,
- athwart,
- athwartships,
- bar,
- be at cross-purposes,
- be contrary to,
- belie,
- boat,
- bridge,
- buck,
- call into question,
- canoe,
- carry sail,
- challenge,
- check,
- circumnavigate,
- coast,
- combat,
- conflict with,
- consider,
- contemplate,
- contest,
- contradict,
- contrariwise,
- contravene,
- contrawise,
- controvert,
- counter,
- counteract,
- countervail,
- counterwork,
- course,
- cover,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- cross bitt,
- cross-grained,
- crossarm,
- crossbar,
- crosscut,
- crossing,
- crosspiece,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- cruciate,
- cruise,
- cut across,
- decussate,
- deny,
- disaffirm,
- dismiss,
- dispute,
- do,
- doubletree,
- duel,
- examine,
- fight,
- gainsay,
- go across,
- go against,
- go by ship,
- go on shipboard,
- go over,
- go to sea,
- hurdle,
- impediment,
- impugn,
- inspect,
- intercross,
- intersect,
- investigate,
- join the opposition,
- lie across,
- look at,
- look into,
- look over,
- make a passage,
- measure,
- motorboat,
- navigate,
- negate,
- negative,
- not abide,
- oblique,
- obliquely,
- observe,
- obstruct,
- obstruction,
- oppose,
- oppugn,
- overpass,
- overthwart,
- pace,
- pass over,
- pass through,
- patrol,
- perambulate,
- peregrinate,
- pererrate,
- play at cross-purposes,
- ply,
- protest,
- quarter,
- range,
- range over,
- rebut,
- reconnoiter,
- reject,
- repel,
- resist,
- review,
- roam,
- row,
- rub,
- run,
- run against,
- run counter to,
- sail,
- sail round,
- sail the sea,
- scan,
- scour,
- scour the country,
- scout,
- scrutinize,
- scull,
- seafare,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- singletree,
- snag,
- squash,
- squelch,
- steam,
- steamboat,
- study,
- stumbling block,
- survey,
- sweep,
- swingletree,
- take a voyage,
- take issue with,
- thwart,
- thwartly,
- thwartways,
- tour,
- track,
- tramp,
- transept,
- transit,
- transom,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- transversely,
- travel over,
- travel through,
- tread,
- vote against,
- voyage,
- walk,
- wander,
- whippletree,
- withstand,
- yacht
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