Oblique Definition

ō-blēk, ə-blēk
obliqued, obliques, obliquing, obliquer, obliquest
adjective
obliquer, obliquest
Having a slanting position or direction; neither perpendicular nor horizontal; not level or upright; inclined.
Webster's New World
Not straight to the point; not straightforward; indirect.
Webster's New World
Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal.
Oblique muscles or ligaments.
American Heritage Medicine
Indirectly aimed at or attained.
Oblique results.
Webster's New World
Evasive, disingenuous, underhanded, etc.
Webster's New World
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noun
obliques
An oblique angle, muscle, etc.
Webster's New World
The act of changing course by less than 90°.
American Heritage
The punctuation sign "/"
Wiktionary
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adverb
At an angle of 45°.
American Heritage
With a change of direction of approximately 45 degrees.
Webster's New World
verb
obliqued, obliques
To veer from the perpendicular; slant.
Webster's New World
(military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; "” formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
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Other Word Forms of Oblique

Noun

Singular:
oblique
Plural:
obliques

Adjective

Base Form:
oblique
Comparative:
obliquer
Superlative:
obliquest

Origin of Oblique

  • From Middle English, oblike, from Latin oblÄ«quus (“slanting, sideways, indirect, envious")

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin oblīquus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Oblique Sentence Examples

  • Their mouth is of moderate width, oblique, and armed with small but firmly set teeth.

  • Note thick walls and oblique slit-like pits with opposite inclination on the two sides of the cell seen in surface view.

  • S, Optical section of part of thick-walled stereid of Phanerogam, with almost obliterated cavity and narrow slit-like oblique pits.

  • In this the crowns of the molars are more or less shortened, with their cusps either arranged in longitudinal lines, or forming four upper and three lower more or less distinct oblique ridges.

  • The face is flat and wide, the nose short, the mouth large and the eyes only slightly oblique.

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Words Starting With

OOBOBL

Words Ending With

EUEQUE

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