What is another word for oblique?
566 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ əblˈiːk], [ əblˈiːk], [ ə_b_l_ˈiː_k]
Oblique means a slanted or angled position or direction. There are a number of synonyms for the term "oblique." These include diagonal, slanting, tilting, askew, angled, inclined, leaning, canted, and skewed. These words all share a common meaning of something being positioned at an angle, rather than straight up and down or completely horizontal. Oblique can also refer to indirect or subtle, and in this context, some synonyms include indirect, vague, equivocal, allusive, and evasive. With a variety of words to choose from, writers have many options for expressing the concept of something being slanted, angled, or indirect.
Synonyms for Oblique:
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adj.
• beveled • circular • crooked- Agee ,
- Incurving ,
- Knurly ,
- Tortile ,
- mis-shapen ,
- not straight ,
- out of shape ,
- screwy ,
- topsyturvy ,
- warped .
- bi furcate ,
- bi-furcate ,
- more akimbo ,
- more bifurcate ,
- more crossing ,
- more crotched ,
- more divaricate ,
- more intersecting ,
- more sharp cornered ,
- more sharp-cornered ,
- more sharpcornered ,
- more skewed ,
- more staggered ,
- more v shaped ,
- more v-shaped ,
- more vshaped ,
- more y shaped ,
- more y-shaped ,
- more yshaped ,
- most akimbo ,
- most bifurcate ,
- most crossing ,
- most crotched ,
- most divaricate ,
- most intersecting ,
- most sharp cornered ,
- most sharp-cornered ,
- most sharpcornered ,
- most skewed ,
- most staggered ,
- most v shaped ,
- most v-shaped ,
- most vshaped ,
- most y shaped ,
- most y-shaped ,
- most yshaped ,
- sharp cornered ,
- sharpcornered ,
- v shaped ,
- vshaped ,
- y shaped ,
- yshaped .
- knotted ,
- more askance ,
- more askant ,
- more aslant ,
- more buckled ,
- more catawampus ,
- more crookedly ,
- more obliquely ,
- more topsy turvey ,
- more topsy-turvey ,
- more topsyturvey ,
- more turned ,
- most askance ,
- most askant ,
- most aslant ,
- most buckled ,
- most catawampus ,
- most crookedly ,
- most obliquely ,
- most topsy turvey ,
- most topsy-turvey ,
- most topsyturvey ,
- most turned ,
- off center ,
- offcenter ,
- to side ,
- topsy turvey ,
- topsyturvey .
- doubledealing ,
- faking out ,
- in sincere ,
- in sincerer ,
- in sincerest ,
- in-sincere ,
- in-sincerer ,
- in-sincerest ,
- insincere ,
- more obliquitous ,
- most obliquitous ,
- playing politics ,
- shady .
- dis cursive ,
- dis-cursive ,
- in direct ,
- in-direct ,
- long drawn out ,
- long winded ,
- more circumlocutory ,
- more sidelong ,
- more snaking ,
- more vagrant ,
- most circumlocutory ,
- most sidelong ,
- most snaking ,
- most vagrant .
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n.
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- straight .
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- orthogonal .
Other synonyms:
- angular ,
- beveled ,
- cos ,
- cosine ,
- cotangent ,
- crooked ,
- ridged ,
- serpentine ,
- side ,
- sine ,
- tangential ,
- wavy ,
- wiggly .
- solid .
- tight .
- anfractuous ,
- biased ,
- linear ,
- longitudinal ,
- obtuse ,
- tangent .
- circular ,
- continuous ,
- sin .
- minute .
Other relevant words:
• askew
• crosswise
• inclining
• indirect
• noun
- Aduncous ,
- Amphibolic ,
- Amphibolous ,
- Banked ,
- Cambered ,
- Canting ,
- Circumambient ,
- Circumlocutional ,
- Conchoidal ,
- Cordated ,
- Crescentic ,
- Curviform ,
- Declivous ,
- Devex ,
- Deviating ,
- Dovetailed ,
- Equivocating ,
- Falcated ,
- Furcated ,
- Furcular ,
- Geniculated ,
- Italicized ,
- Kimbo ,
- Leanly ,
- Luniform ,
- Lunular ,
- Oblique-angled ,
- Overthwart ,
- Raked ,
- Recurvous ,
- Tilting ,
- Tipping ,
- abdominal external oblique muscle ,
- ablative case ,
- accusative case ,
- across ,
- acute ,
- affection ,
- akimbo ,
- ambagious ,
- ambiguous ,
- ambivalent ,
- angle ,
- angle off ,
- angled ,
- angling ,
- apex ,
- appetite ,
- aquiline ,
- askance ,
- asquint ,
- astray ,
- asymmetrical ,
- athwart ,
- atilt ,
- attend ,
- avert ,
- backhand ,
- backhanded ,
- backslash ,
- badly ,
- banking ,
- bear off ,
- bend ,
- bent ,
- bevel ,
- bias ,
- biceps ,
- bifurcate ,
- bow-legged ,
- bowed ,
- cagey ,
- cant ,
- canted ,
- cardioid ,
- careen ,
- casuistic ,
- cata-cornered ,
- catacorner ,
- cater-cornered ,
- catercorner ,
- catty-corner ,
- catty-cornered ,
- circuitous ,
- circuitously ,
- circumlocutionary ,
- circumlocutory ,
- clandestine ,
- cockeyed ,
- collateral ,
- convergent ,
- cordiform ,
- corner ,
- corrupt ,
- covert ,
- crabwise ,
- crazy ,
- crinkled ,
- crook ,
- cross ,
- crossway ,
- crossways ,
- crosswise ,
- crump ,
- cunning ,
- curved ,
- curvilineal ,
- curvilinear ,
- cusp ,
- dative ,
- dative case ,
- deceitful ,
- deceptive ,
- declension ,
- declivitous ,
- declivity ,
- deflect ,
- depart ,
- descent ,
- desire ,
- deviant ,
- deviate ,
- deviative ,
- devious ,
- differ ,
- digress ,
- digressive ,
- dip ,
- discursive ,
- dishonest ,
- disingenuous ,
- disposal ,
- disposition ,
- dissembling ,
- distorted ,
- divagate ,
- diverge ,
- divergent ,
- diverging ,
- diversionary ,
- divide ,
- drift ,
- duplicitous ,
- dusk ,
- edge ,
- equivocal ,
- err ,
- erratic ,
- erroneously ,
- evasive ,
- evening ,
- excursive ,
- external oblique muscle ,
- falciform ,
- false ,
- falsely ,
- far ,
- faultily ,
- forked ,
- furtive ,
- genitive case ,
- go ,
- grammatical case ,
- hedging ,
- helical ,
- hooked ,
- imperfectly ,
- implicit ,
- implied ,
- improperly ,
- inaccurately ,
- inclination ,
- incline ,
- inclining ,
- incorrectly ,
- indirectly ,
- instrumental ,
- instrumental case ,
- intersection ,
- jagged ,
- jesuitical ,
- kidney-shaped ,
- kinky ,
- kitty-corner ,
- kitty-cornered ,
- lateral ,
- lead ,
- lean ,
- leave ,
- left-handed ,
- lenticular ,
- lentiform ,
- line ,
- locative ,
- locative case ,
- lopsided ,
- lubricious ,
- mark ,
- meandering ,
- misleading ,
- mistakenly ,
- muscle ,
- musculus obliquus externus abdominis ,
- nonintersecting ,
- nonparallel ,
- objective case ,
- oblique angle ,
- oblique case ,
- oblique line ,
- obliquely ,
- obliqueness ,
- obliquitous ,
- obliquity ,
- obscure ,
- off-kilter ,
- offhand ,
- on the bias ,
- orbital ,
- out-of-the-way ,
- parabolic ,
- paraboloid ,
- partiality ,
- periphrastic ,
- perverse ,
- pitched ,
- pitching ,
- point ,
- possessive case ,
- prejudice ,
- proclivity ,
- projection ,
- questionable ,
- quit ,
- rake ,
- rambling ,
- range ,
- recurved ,
- reniform ,
- rhomboid ,
- roam ,
- rotary ,
- round ,
- roundabout ,
- rove ,
- roving ,
- rule ,
- run ,
- score ,
- secondhand ,
- semicircular ,
- semilunar ,
- separatrix ,
- serrated ,
- sheer ,
- shifty ,
- sidelong ,
- sideways ,
- sinister ,
- sinistral ,
- sinusoid ,
- skew ,
- slant ,
- slantwise ,
- slash ,
- slenderly ,
- slop ,
- slope ,
- sloped ,
- slue ,
- sly ,
- solidus ,
- sophistical ,
- spiral ,
- squint ,
- squinty ,
- start ,
- strained ,
- stroke ,
- surreptitious ,
- suspicious ,
- sway ,
- swerve ,
- tactful ,
- tend ,
- tendency ,
- thinly ,
- thwart ,
- tilt ,
- tipped ,
- transversal ,
- traverse ,
- tricky ,
- turn ,
- turned ,
- twist ,
- twisted ,
- twisting ,
- twisty ,
- underhand ,
- underhanded ,
- underline ,
- underscore ,
- unjustly ,
- upturned ,
- vague ,
- vary ,
- vaulted ,
- veer ,
- vicarious ,
- virgule ,
- vocative case ,
- voluntary muscle ,
- waffling ,
- wander ,
- wandering ,
- widely ,
- winding ,
- wishy-washy ,
- wrongly .
- Crotched ,
- Double dealing ,
- Snaking ,
- askant ,
- aslant ,
- aslope ,
- by way of ,
- catawampus ,
- crookedly ,
- diagonal ,
- divaricate ,
- faking one out ,
- long way ,
- long way around ,
- long way home ,
- longwinded ,
- not straightforward ,
- one side ,
- playing games ,
- sharp-cornered ,
- slanted ,
- to one side ,
- topsy-turvey ,
- winding around ,
- yaw ways ,
- zigzag .
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How to use "Oblique" in context?
When adjectives are used to modify nouns, they are said to be oblique. While most adjectives can be seen as modifying typical nouns (like "plain", "tall", or "round"), there are a few that are typically used to modify other oblique nouns. These adjectives describe a noun from a specific angle or in a specific way.
An oblique adjective is a word used to modify a noun in a specific way. Oftentimes, these adjectives describe a noun from a specific angle or in a specific way.
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Hyponym for Oblique:
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case, grammatical case.
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