Horizontal

Quick meaning: Horizontal is an adjective meaning Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.

Meaning

Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.

More Meanings

1. (marketing) Relating to horizontal markets
2. (wine) Involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries.
3. (music, of an interval) Having the two notes sound successively.
4. (sex, euphemistic) Relating to sexual intercourse.
5. A horizontal component of a structure.
6. (biology) Being or relating to the transmission of organisms between biotic and/or abiotic members of an ecosystem that are not in a parent-progeny relationship.
7. (archaic) Pertaining to the horizon.

Example Sentences

horizontal lines

horizontal tango

Infectious agents may spread by horizontal transmission.

As when the Sun new ris'n / Looks through the Horizontal misty Air

Word Forms

• horizontals

Synonyms for horizontal

Depending on context, synonyms include linear, melodic, level, flat, naiant, crosswise.

Antonyms for horizontal

Common opposites include vertical, inclined, perpendicular.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include level, flat, crosswise, swimming, naiant, cross-sectional.

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