Slantwise

Quick meaning: Slantwise is an adjective meaning Diagonal, in a direction or orientation between cardinal axes.

Meaning

Diagonal, in a direction or orientation between cardinal axes.

More Meanings

1. Diagonally, in a direction or orientation between cardinal axes

Example Sentences

Slantwise, a salamander-shaped sea came at them, growing.

[…] he had received a cut slantwise along one temple and cheek, leaving a long scar like a streak of dawn's light falling athwart the dark visage.

I can see it all now,—the slantwise rain / Of light through the leaves, / The sundown's blaze on her window-pane, / The bloom of her roses under the eaves.

Ms. Davis — who at different points in the set called to mind Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley, without resorting to mimicry — often led this charge, starting out with a blank canvas and creeping slantwise into a repeatable motif.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include diagonal, slantindicular, slantingdicular, slantendicular, cantic, axiolateral.

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