Atilt

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

At an angle from the vertical or horizontal..

Definitions by Sense

1. At an angle from the vertical or horizontal.
2. At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over.
3. Tilting or as if tilting (charging with a lance, like a knight on horseback in a joust).
4. Diagonally over or across.

Example Sentences

The child listened, her head atilt.

1954, Allen Ginsberg, Journal entry in Gordon Ball (ed.), Journals, New York: Grove, 1977, p. 70, Pink bedroom lamp, shade atilt over Uncle Abe’s ancient clean radio,

When I came to the river, I ached in sympathy with the shipping painfully atilt on the rock-like surface of the brine, which broke against the piers, and sprayed itself over them like showers of powdered quartz.

In other villages the shawled women sat knitting behind piles of beets and cabbages and apples, their farm-carts atilt in the sun.

He wore his hat rakishly atilt.

Ale should not be drunk under five dayes old; new Ale is unwholsome, sowre Ale, and dead, and Ale which do stand atilt is most unwholesome.

In that nice Moment, as another Lye Stood just a-tilt, the Minister came by.

[…] the slope flattened to a wide shelf where limestone cropped through the heather and many huge boulders were scattered atilt.

Synonyms for atilt

Antonyms for atilt

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• a-tilt

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