'Sideways' definitions:
Definition of 'sideways'
(from WordNet)
adverb
With one side forward or to the front; "turned sideways to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise" [syn: sideways, sideway, sidewise]
adverb
From the side; obliquely; "a picture lit sideways"; "scenes viewed sidewise" [syn: sideway, sideways, sidewise]
adverb
Toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows" [syn: sideways, sideway, sidewise]
adverb
To, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face" [syn: sidelong, sideways, obliquely]
adjective
(of movement) at an angle [syn: crabwise, sideways]
Definition of 'Sideways'
From: GCIDE
- Sideways \Side"ways`\, adv. Toward the side; sidewise. [1913 Webster]
- A second refraction made sideways. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
- His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . . Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sideways'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- across,
- across the grain,
- aside,
- askance,
- askant,
- aslant,
- aslope,
- asquint,
- at an angle,
- athwart,
- athwartships,
- breadthwise,
- broad side foremost,
- broadside,
- broadside on,
- broadways,
- broadwise,
- circuitously,
- contrariwise,
- contrawise,
- crabwise,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- depthwise,
- deviately,
- deviously,
- digressively,
- divagationally,
- divergently,
- edgeway,
- edgeways,
- edgewise,
- excursively,
- flanking,
- glancing,
- glancingly,
- indirectly,
- laterad,
- lateral,
- laterally,
- lee,
- leeward,
- next-beside,
- obliquely,
- on its side,
- on one side,
- on the beam,
- overthwart,
- right and left,
- side,
- sideling,
- sidelong,
- sideward,
- sidewards,
- sideway,
- sidewise,
- sidling,
- skirting,
- slantingly,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- slaunchways,
- through,
- thwart,
- thwartly,
- thwartways,
- to one side,
- transverse,
- transversely,
- traverse,
- weather,
- widthways,
- widthwise,
- windward