obliquity

obliquity
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Slanting position
Nouns
1. obliquity, obliqueness, deviation, divergence; inclination, slope, slant; crookedness; leaning; bevel, tilt; bias, list, swag, cant, twist, distortion; bend (see curvature); angularity; tower of Pisa; indirectness (see circuity).
2. (amount of obliquity) acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, upgrade, rising ground, hill, bank; ramp, incline, grade; steepness, diagonality; cliff, precipice (see vertical); escarpment, scarp; declivity, downgrade, downhill, dip, fall, descent.
3. (measurement of angle) clinometer; [co]sine, [co]tangent; angle, hypotenuse; diagonal; zigzag; talus.
Verbs — diverge, deviate; slope, slant, lean, incline, shelve, stoop; rise, ascend; decline, descend; bend, heel, careen, sag, cant, sidle; sway, bias; crook; tilt; distort.
Adjectives
1. oblique, inclined; sloping, tilted, recumbent, clinal, askew, aslant, indirect, wry, awry, crooked; knock-kneed, distorted (see distortion); beveled, out of the perpendicular; diagonal; transverse, crossing; curved (see curvature).
2. uphill, rising, ascending, acclivitous; downhill, falling, descending; declining, anticlinal; steep, sheer, abrupt, precipitous, breakneck; not straight, not true.
Adverbs — obliquely, diagonally; on one side; askew, askant, askance, edgewise; out of plumb; at an angle; sidelong, sideways; slopewise, slantwise; by a side wind; out of kilter.
Antonyms, see direction, straightness.

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