'oblique' definitions:
Definition of 'oblique'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Slanting or inclined in direction or course or position-- neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base" [ant: parallel, perpendicular]
adjective
Indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading; "used devious means to achieve success"; "gave oblique answers to direct questions"; "oblique political maneuvers" [syn: devious, oblique]
noun
Any grammatical case other than the nominative [syn: oblique, oblique case] [ant: nominative, nominative case, subject case]
noun
A diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso [syn: external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis, abdominal external oblique muscle, oblique]
Synonyms of 'oblique'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- across,
- ambagious,
- angle,
- angle off,
- angling,
- askew,
- aslant,
- athwart,
- atilt,
- awry,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- banked,
- banking,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bias,
- cambered,
- canted,
- canting,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- clandestine,
- collateral,
- crook,
- crooked,
- cross,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- deflect,
- deflectional,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- devious,
- diagonal,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- divagate,
- divagational,
- diverge,
- divergent,
- diverging,
- evasive,
- excursive,
- false,
- furtive,
- helical,
- implied,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- indirect,
- leaning,
- left-handed,
- meandering,
- O-shaped,
- oblique angle,
- oblique figure,
- oblique line,
- offhand,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- overthwart,
- periphrastic,
- pitched,
- pitching,
- rhomboid,
- rotary,
- round,
- roundabout,
- scratch comma,
- separatrix,
- sheer,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- skew,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slash,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- slue,
- sly,
- solidus,
- spiral,
- surreptitious,
- sway,
- swerve,
- thwart,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- traverse,
- turn,
- twist,
- underhanded,
- veer,
- virgule
Words containing 'oblique'
- obliquely,
- obliqueness,
- obliquity,
- Oblique cone,
- Oblique descension,
- Oblique projection,
- Oblique sphere,
- oblique angle,
- oblique bandage,
- oblique case,
- oblique fault,
- oblique perspective,
- oblique triangle,
- external oblique muscle,
- oblique-angled,
- abdominal external oblique muscle,
- oblique vein of the left atrium,
- bias catacorner cata-cornered catercorner cater-cornered catty-corner catty-cornered diagonal kitty-corner kitty-cornered oblique skew skewed slanted