oblique
adjective
[ əˈbliːk ]
• neither parallel nor at right angles to a specified or implied line; slanting.
• "we sat on the settee oblique to the fireplace"
Similar:
slanting,
slanted,
sloping,
at an angle,
angled,
diagonal,
aslant,
slant,
slantwise,
sloped,
inclined,
inclining,
tilted,
tilting,
atilt,
skew,
on the skew,
askew,
squint,
cater-cornered,
catty-cornered,
kitty-corner,
• not expressed or done in a direct way.
• "he issued an oblique attack on the President"
Similar:
indirect,
inexplicit,
roundabout,
circuitous,
circumlocutory,
implicit,
implied,
elliptical,
evasive,
backhanded,
circumlocutionary,
ambagious,
• denoting any case other than the nominative or vocative.
oblique
noun
• another term for slash1 (sense 2 of the noun).
• an oblique muscle.
• "it is the obliques and abdominals which create the well-trained look"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin obliquus .
