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sloping
| Main Entry: |
sloping
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slanting |
| Synonyms: | acclivous, askew, aslant, declivous, downhill, inclined, leaning, oblique, pitched, supine, tilted |
| Antonyms: | level, straight |
| Main Entry: | slope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | slant, tilt |
| Synonyms: | angle, ascend, bank, bevel, cant, descend, dip, drop, drop away, fall, heel, incline, lean, list, pitch, rake, recline, rise, shelve, skew, splay, tip |
| Antonyms: | even, level |
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| Main Entry: | slope |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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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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| Main Entry: | hilly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bumpy |
| Synonyms: | craggy, elevated, mountainous, rangy, rocky, rolling, rugged, sloping, steep, undulating, uneven |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | slanting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inclining |
| Synonyms: | aslant, aslope, bent, oblique, sloping, tilting |
| Main Entry: | beveled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slanted |
| Synonyms: | chamfered, diagonal, oblique, slanting, sloping |
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