tilting

Main Entry:
tilt [tilt]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lean, slant
Synonyms: bend, cant, careen, dip, heel, incline, list, lurch, pitch, rake, recline, seesaw, set at an angle, shift, slope, slouch, swag, sway, tip, turn, yaw
Antonyms: straighten
Main Entry: fighting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: aggressive, warlike
Synonyms: angry, argumentative, battling, bellicose, belligerent, boxing, brawling, combative, contending, contentious, determined, disputatious, disputative, fencing, ferocious, hawkish, hostile, jingoistic, jousting, martial, militant, militaristic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ready to fight, resolute, scrappy, skirmishing, sparring, tilting, truculent, unbeatable, under arms, up in arms, warmongering, wrestling
Antonyms: peaceloving
Main Entry: lopsided
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: leaning, falling to one side; larger on one side
Synonyms: askew, asymmetrical, awry, cockeyed, crooked, disproportional, disproportionate, inclinatory, irregular, nonsymmetrical, off-balance, one-sided, out of shape, overbalanced, squint, tilting, top-heavy, unbalanced, unequal, uneven, unsteady, warped
Antonyms: even, level, straight, unleaning
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: slanting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: inclining
Synonyms: aslant, aslope, bent, oblique, sloping, tilting
Main Entry: bend
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: form or cause a curve
Synonyms: angle away, angle off, arch, bow, buckle, camber, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook, incline, incurvate, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag
Antonyms: straighten
Main Entry: cant
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lean, slant
Synonyms: angle, bevel, careen, grade, heel, incline, list, recline, rise, slope, tilt, tip
Main Entry: careen
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: tilt; move wildly down path
Synonyms: bend, lean, lurch, pitch, sway, tilt
Notes: careen has a nautical origin and is a side-to-side trajectory while career is a headlong high-speed trajectory
Main Entry: compete
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: go up against in contest
Synonyms: attempt, bandy, battle, be in the running, bid, challenge, clash, collide, contend, contest, cope with, emulate, encounter, essay, face, fence, fight, go after, go for broke, go for the gold, go for, grapple, in the hunt, jockey for position, joust, lock horns, match strength, match wits, oppose, participate in, pit oneself against, play, rival, run for, scramble for, seek prize, spar, strive, struggle, take on, take part, tilt, try, tussle, vie, wrestle
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