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slanting
| Main Entry: |
slanting
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inclining |
| Synonyms: | aslant, aslope, bent, oblique, sloping, tilting |
| Main Entry: | slant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | change to suit; distort |
| Synonyms: | aim, angle, bias, color, concentrate, direct, focus, influence, orient, point, prejudice, train, twist, warp, weight |
| Antonyms: | leave alone, maintain |
| Main Entry: | askew |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crooked |
| Synonyms: | askance, askant, aslant, awry, bent, buckled, catawampus, cockeyed, crookedly, curved, knotted, lopsided, oblique, obliquely, off-center, slanted, slanting, to one side, topsy-turvey, turned, twisted, yaw ways, zigzag |
| Main Entry: | awry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | off course; amiss |
| Synonyms: | afield, askance, askew, aslant, astray, badly, bent, cockeyed, crooked, curved, slanting, turned, wrong, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | ok, on course |
| 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: | sideways |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | to the edge, exteriority |
| Synonyms: | alongside, aside, aslant, aslope, athwart, broadside, crabwise, edgeways, indirectly, laterally, obliquely, side by side, sidelong, sidewards, slanting, slantingly, slantwise, sloping, to the side |
| Main Entry: | transverse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crosswise |
| Synonyms: | cross, diagonal, intersecting, oblique, slanting, transversal |
| 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 |
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