Athwart

Definition: Athwart

Athwart

Adverb

1. At right angles to the center line of a ship.

2. At an oblique angle; "the sun shone aslant into his face".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "athwart" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Food & Agriculture

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Synonyms: Athwart

Crossing

Adverb: cross, thwart, athwart, transversely; at grade; crosswise.

Opposition

In spite, in despite, in defiance; in the way, in the teeth of, in the face of; across; athwart, overthwart; where the shoe pinches; in spite of one's teeth.

Crosswords: Athwart

Expressions using "athwart": athwart hawse ♦ athwart ships. Additional references.

Albanian

tërthor (abeam, aslant, criss cross, cross, sidelong, sideways, transversal, transverse, traverse), përtej (above, across, below, beyond, over, past, trans, up), mespërmes (across, through), matanë (across, below, beyond, in the opposite direction, on the other side of, over, past, trans). (various references)

Arabic 

‏بالعرض (cross-cut, crosswise). (various references)

Bulgarian 

въпреки (despite, notwithstanding, regardless of, with), накриво (acock, askew, aslant, asquint, awry, criss cross, haywire), напреко (across, as the crow flies, widthways, widthwise), против (against, agin, aversely, contra, on, versus, with). (various references)

Danish

tvaers (abeam, abreast), tværskibs (athwartships). (various references)

Dutch

overdwars, dwarsscheeps (abeam), dwars (abeam, transverse). (various references)

Farsi 

ازوسط (Across, Crossways, Crosswise, Per, Through), ازطرفی بطرف دیگر, ازاین سوبان سو (Across), برضد (Against, Versus), برخلاف (Unlike, With). (various references)

Finnish

poikki laivan (athwartships), poikittain (across, crosswise, transversely). (various references)

French

en travers. (various references)

German

zwerch, querschiffs (athwartships), querab (abeam), quer (across, askance, aslant, beyond, cross, crossways, crosswise, diagonally, on the other side of), dwarsschiffs (athwartships), dwars. (various references)

Greek 

πλάγια (aslant, deviously, edgeways), εγκάρσια στο πλοίο (athwartships), εγκάρσια (abeam), εγκαρσίωσ (abeam, across). (various references)

Hebrew 

מצ�" אל צ�". (various references)

Hungarian

keresztben (across, crossways, thwart, thwart-ship, traverse). (various references)

Indonesian

arah melintang. (various references)

Italian

di traverso (Amiss, askance, askew, awry, edgeways). (various references)

Manx

tessen (cross, diagonal, thwart, transversal, transverse). (various references)

Pig Latin

athwartay.(various references)

Portuguese

de través (abreast, amidships, aslant, bias, criss-cross, crosswise, slantwise). (various references)

Romanian

oblic (aslant, asquint, bias, diagonal, inclined, oblique, obliquely, sidelong, skew, slanting, sloping, splay, squint, transverse), de-a curmezişul (across, aslant, crossways, transversally, traversely). (various references)

Russian 

поперек (across, aslant, broadways). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

popreko (abeam, across, askance, broadways, diagonally). (various references)

Spanish

de través (abeam, awry). (various references)

Swedish

tvärs över (across, aslant, over, straight across), på tvären (across, crosswise), från den ena sidan till den andra. (various references)

Turkish

aykırı (anomalous, anti-, antithetic, antithetical, contradictious, contradictory, counter, crossways, crosswise, gainst, heterodox, impolitic, incongruous, inconsistent, repugnant, thwart, transverse), zıt (adverse, anti-, antipole, antithetic, antithetical, conflicting, converse, counter, diametrical, jarring, negative, opponent, opposed, opposite, polar, reverse), tersine (against the grain, backward, backwards, contrarily, contrariwise, conversely, crisscross, inversely, over, per contra, retro-), karşıt (adverse, anti-, antipathetic, antipathetical, antithetic, antithetical, contra, contra-, contradictory, contrary, converse, cross, inimical, jarring, objector, opponent, opposed, opposite, reciprocal, reciprocating, reverse), karşıdan karşıya (across, across the street, over the street), karşı tarafa, karşı (against, anti-, before, con, con-, contra, contrary, counter, discordant, facing, for, gainst, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, repugnant, to, toward, towards, versus), çaprazlama (cross, crossways, crosswise, decussate, diagonally, on the cross). (various references)

Ukrainian

упоперек (across, aslant, broadwise, crosswise, transversely), косо (askance, askew, aslant, aslope, awry, obliquely, sidelong, sideway, sideways, sidewise, slant, slantwise, splay), всупереч (after, against, contrary to, counter, notwithstanding), навскіс (aslant), наперекір, проти (against, contrary to, counter, opposite, up, versus), перпендикулярно до, перпендикулярно (downright, normally). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "athwart": athwartship, athwartships. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Athwart" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akhbar, akhdar, cathart, Othmar, Rathgar, Tanwaru. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: thwart.

-2 letters: arhat, attar, tatar, thraw, wrath.

-3 letters: haar, hart, rath, tahr, tart, that, thaw, wart, watt, what.

-4 letters: aah, aha, art, att, awa, hat, haw, rah, rat, raw, tar, tat, taw, twa, war, wat, wha.

-5 letters: aa, ah, ar, at, aw, ha, ta.

+1 letter: strawhat, thrawart.

+2 letters: bathwater.

+3 letters: bathwaters.

+4 letters: athwartship, straightway, weathercast.

+5 letters: athwartships, straightaway, weathercasts.