All aslant synonyms
aΒ·slant
A a adj aslant
- crooked β If you describe something as crooked, especially something that is usually straight, you mean that it is bent or twisted.
- off-center β not centered; diverging from the exact center.
- awry β If something goes awry, it does not happen in the way it was planned.
- askew β Something that is askew is not straight or not level with what it should be level with.
- astray β out of the correct path or direction
- droll β amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- sardonic β characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- ironic β using words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning; containing or exemplifying irony: an ironic novel; an ironic remark.
- mocking β to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- warped β to bend or twist out of shape, especially from a straight or flat form, as timbers or flooring.
- leaning β the act or state of leaning; inclination: The tower has a pronounced lean.
- diagonal β A diagonal line or movement goes in a sloping direction, for example, from one corner of a square across to the opposite corner.
- inclining β an inclined surface; slope; slant.
- pitching β any of various dark, tenacious, and viscous substances for caulking and paving, consisting of the residue of the distillation of coal tar or wood tar.
- crossways β crosswise.
- askance β with an oblique glance
- bent β Bent is the past tense and past participle of bend.
- cockeyed β If you say that an idea or scheme is cockeyed, you mean that you think it is very unlikely to succeed.
- curved β A curved object has the shape of a curve or has a smoothly bending surface.
- knotted β having knots; knotty.
- lopsided β heavier, larger, or more developed on one side than on the other; unevenly balanced; unsymmetrical.
- oblique β neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
- obliquely β in an oblique manner or direction.
- slanting β to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- twisted β to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
- zigzag β a line, course, or progression characterized by sharp turns first to one side and then to the other.
- askant β askance
- buckled β Buckled shoes have buckles on them, either to fasten them or as decoration.
- catawampus β askew; awry
- crookedly β not straight; bending; curved: a crooked path.
- turned β to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- afield β away from one's usual surroundings or home (esp in the phrase far afield)
- badly β If something is done badly or goes badly, it is not very successful or effective.
- crooked β If you describe something as crooked, especially something that is usually straight, you mean that it is bent or twisted.
- wrong β not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- angular β Angular things have shapes that seem to contain a lot of straight lines and sharp points.
- athwart β transversely; from one side to another
- crisscross β to move or cause to move in a crosswise pattern
- cross β If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
- crossing β A crossing is a journey by boat or ship to a place on the other side of a sea, river, or lake.
- diagonally β Mathematics. connecting two nonadjacent angles or vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, as a straight line. extending from one edge of a solid figure to an opposite edge, as a plane.
- over β above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
- perpendicular β vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- sideways β with a side foremost.
- thwart β to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.