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adj
Slanted, sloping.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: aslant, diagonal, inclined, oblique
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Sloping, in a sloping manner; slanted along a slope.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: aslant, aslantwise, athwart, diagonally, obliquely
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Indirectly, obliquely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, figuratively, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
In an unfavourable or unintended direction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, figuratively, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: off course
Antonyms: none provided
prep
Diagonally across or over; aslant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: athwart
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
having an oblique or slanted direction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: aslant, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English aslop, aslope (“at an angle or slant; aside”); further etymology uncertain, probably either: * from Old English āslopen (“slipped away”), the past participle of āslūpan (“to slip away”), from ā- (prefix meaning ‘away; from; off; out’) + slūpan (“to glide, slip”) (from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan (“to move stealthily, creep, sneak”), from Proto-Germanic *sleupaną (“to move stealthily, creep, sneak”), probably either from Proto-Indo-European *slewbh- (“to glide, slide, slip”) or *slewp- (“to glide, slip”)); or * from Middle English a- + *slope (adjective). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that the adjective slope (now obsolete) is attested later than aslope and is probably an aphetic form of the latter. The adverb is more common than the adjective.
Across languages
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