Oblique

Definition: Oblique

Oblique

Adjective

1. Slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angular; "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base".

2. Indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading; "used devious means to achieve success"; "gave oblique answers to direct questions"; "oblique political maneuvers".

Noun

1. Any grammatical case other than the nominative.

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

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

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Synonyms: Oblique

Angularity

Adjective: angular, bent, crooked, aduncous, uncinated, aquiline, jagged, serrated; falciform, falcated; furcated, forked, bifurcate, zigzag; furcular; hooked; dovetailed; knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo, geniculated; oblique.

Curvature

Adjective: curved; Verb: curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear; devex, devious; recurved, recurvous; crump; bowed; Verb: vaulted, hooked; falciform, falcated; semicircular, crescentic; sinusoid, parabolic, paraboloid; luniform, lunular; semilunar, conchoidal; helical, double helical, spiral; kinky; cordiform, cordated; cardioid; heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped; kidney-shaped, reniform; lentiform, lenticular; bow-legged; (distorted); oblique; circular.

Crosswords: Oblique

French (bevel, cant, oblique, sidelong, sideways, skew, slanting, slantwise, thwart).

I have an oblique personality, direct proportion of my surroundings (Scarlet Diva; writing credit: Asia Argento)

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Books

• Almost Chosen People: Oblique Biographies in the American Grain (A Centennial Book) (reference)

• An Oblique Approach (reference)

• Axonometric and Oblique Drawing: A 3-D Construction, Rendering, and Design Guide (reference)

• Oblique Light (reference)

• Oblique Prayers (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Fancy Binaries: Oblique Soundscapes, Vol. 3 (reference)

• Hic Locus Quest: Oblique Soundscapes 5 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Darkfield microscopy involves the application of light rays in an oblique manner to microscopic specimens in order to illuminate these organisms, which are normally difficult to see using normal lighting techniques. Credit: CDC.

An oblique view of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Build 1, Clifton Road Offices, Atlanta, GA. Credit: CDC.

Flying Oblique Wing. Credit: NASA.

3-D image from NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project Blowup of area right at base of Oregon continental slope Note oblique lineations at base of continental slope These are real features as sounding system artifacts are farther to west (left). Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

C&GS ship offshore near Rockland, Maine Conducting observations along the Eastern Oblique Arc. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

AML. Oblique Aerial view of Kaaba-Texas Mine. Credit: Jake Jakaboski.

Chauncey D. Stillman, "Wethersfield", residence in Amenia, New York. Staircase, oblique. Credit: Library of Congress.

New Orleans photographs. Oblique shot of Royal St. balconies. Credit: Library of Congress.

Printer's Industrial Welfare Building, W. 14th St. Oblique perspective. Credit: Library of Congress.

H.D. Sheldon, residence in New Vernon, New Jersey. Oblique down view of staircase. Credit: Library of Congress.

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When the position of the stone is oblique, the motion of the island is so too.

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Expressions using "oblique": make oblique accusations ♦ oblique air photograph ♦ oblique angle ♦ oblique answer ♦ oblique arch ♦ oblique ascension ♦ oblique bandage ♦ oblique bridge ♦ oblique case ♦ oblique circle ♦ oblique cone ♦ oblique conical conformal projection ♦ oblique cylindrical conformal projection ♦ oblique cylindrical projection ♦ oblique descension ♦ oblique eye muscle ♦ oblique fault ♦ oblique fire ♦ oblique flank ♦ oblique leaf ♦ oblique line ♦ oblique motion ♦ oblique muscle ♦ oblique narration ♦ oblique oration ♦ oblique planes ♦ oblique position ♦ oblique projection ♦ oblique rule ♦ oblique ruling line ♦ oblique sailing ♦ oblique speech ♦ oblique sphere ♦ oblique step ♦ oblique stroke ♦ oblique system of coordinates ♦ oblique triangle ♦ oblique vein of the left atrium ♦ oblique ways. Additional references.

Beginning with "oblique": Oblique-angled, oblique-slip.

Afrikaans

skeef (slanting). (various references)

Albanian

jodirekt, i zhdrejtë (indirect), i tërthortë (constructive, devious, indirect, roundabout, tortuous, transversal), i pjerrët (arduous, bevel, declivitous, declivous, high pitched, hilly, inclined, leaning, reclinate, sideling, skew, slant, slanting, slantwise, sloping). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منحرف مائل (corrupted, deviating, inclined, perverse, tilted), ‏منحرف (askew, aslant, awry, bent, deflector, depraved, devious, errant, inclined, perverse, skew, slant, slanted, slanting, tilted), ‏مائل (atilt, awry, bent, bevel, bias, cock eyed, diagonal, inclined, sidelong, skew, slant, slanted, slantwise, slope, sloping, stooping, thwart, titled), ‏مأخوذ من الجو على نحو مائل, ‏غير مباشر (circuitous, circumstantial, indirect, mediate, roundabout, sidelong, sinuous, vicarious), ‏عضلة منحرفقة, ‏خط منحرف, ‏المنحرف (deviant), ‏المائل. (various references)

Bulgarian 

обиколен (circuitous, roundabout, tortuous), прикрит (backstage, covered, deep, disingenuous, occult, secret), напредвам косо, наклонен (downhill, hanging, inclined, intent, low-grade, one sided, prone, rampant, ready, scalene, skew, slant, slantindicular, slanting, sloped, sloping, splay, supine), наклонявам се, неискрен (disingenuous, false, feigned, hollow, hollow-hearted, insincere, lip, lip-deep, mealy mouthed, phoney, pretended, synthetic, tortuous), непочтен (discreditable, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, fishy, foul, shady, sharp, twisty, underhand), полегат (declivous, downhill, inclined, prone, rampant, slant, slantindicular, slanting, sloping), несиметричен (asymmetric, dissymmetrical, irregular, lop-sided, skew), страничен (adventitious, adventive, aisle, by, circumstantial, collateral, exterior, external, incidental, indirect, lateral, marginal, off, outside, postern, side), отклонявам се (break, depart, deviate, digress, dissent, diverge, dodge, part, run off, stray, swerve, swing, take off, turn aside, turn off, wander), остър или тъп, кос (bevel, blackbird, ousel, ouzel, sidelong, sideward, sideways, skew, slantways, slantwise, splay, thwart, transversal, transverse), косвен (circuitous, circumstantial, collateral, implicit, implied, indirect, mediate, vicarious), скосен (canted), уклончив (cagey, circumlocutional, evasive, lubricous, non committal), непряк (indirect, mediate, remote, second hand). (various references)

Chinese 

倾斜 (Canting, inclined, inclining, lean, Leaned, leaning, Leant, raked, raking, slanted, slanting, slope, sloped, sloping). (various references)

Czech

nepřímý (contributory, indirect, mediate, roundabout, tortuous, vicarious), kosý (sidelong, slant), křivolaký (devious, tortuous), šikmý (skew, slant, slanting, sloping). (various references)

Danish

skråvinklet, skråsigt (oblique air photograph), skrå (bevel, diagonal, inclined, skew), skæv (bevel, blocked, coating, high, skew, turned on). (various references)

Dutch

schuin (obscene, slanting, sloping), scheef (slanting). (various references)

Esperanto

oblikva (slanting). (various references)

Faeroese

skeivur (slanting), lagghallur (slanting). (various references)

Farsi 

منحرف (Aberrant, Amiss, Astray, Awry, Deviant, Devious, Hellbent, Lost, Perverse, Pervert, Skew), مایل (Desirous, Fond, Gauche, Lief, Solicitous, Wilful), غیرمستقیم (Devious, Indirect, Sideway, Sinuous, Tortuous), حاده یامنفرجه , اریب (Diagonal, Sidle, Slant). (various references)

Finnish

vino (disorted, inclined, slanting), viisto (slanting). (various references)

French

oblique. (various references)

German

schräg (askew, aslant, at an angle, bevel, beveled, diagonal, diagonally, fishy, inclinated, inclined, leaning, obliquely, off the straight, on the bias, on the cross, on the slant, skew, slanted, slanting, slantwise, slantwisely, sloped, sloping, sloppily, squint eyed, suspicious, transversal, weird), schief (askance, aslant, awry, cockeyed, crooked, distorted, inappropriate, inclinated, leaning, lopsided, not straight, scalene, skew, slanting, sloping, sloppily, squint eyed, tilted, worn-down, wry), schrög, indirekt (allusively, implicit, implicitly, implied, indirect, indirectly, mediate, mediately, obliquely, second hand, slanting, vicarious). (various references)

Greek 

πλάγια αεροφωτογραφία (oblique air photograph), πλάγιοσ (aslant, bevel, circuitous, devious, indirect, lateral, side, sidelong, slanting), πλάγιος (circuitous, lateral), πλαγιόληπτη εικόνα, λοξόσ (askew, awry, cockeyed, crackpot, devious, kinky, rakish, sidelong, skew, slant, slanting, transverse, wry), λοξός (awry), λοξά (askance). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלוכסן (skew), משופע (inclined, slanting, sloping), לוכס� י, עקיף (collateral, indirect, roundabout, vicarious), אלכסו� י (diagonal, slanted, slantwise, thwart). (various references)

Hungarian

rézsútos (beveled, bevelled, inclined, skew, thwart, transverse), ferde (aslope, awry, beveled, bias, biased, biassed, cant, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross, leaning, out of the straigh, perverse, sideling, sidelong, skew, slant, slanting, splay). (various references)

Indonesian

miring (askew, aslant, awry, bias, cant, careen, crazy, slanting, sloping, wry), gendeng (dumb, inclined, stupid). (various references)

Italian

obliquo (askance, askew, cross, devious, indirect, lopsided, sidelong, sideward, slanting, sloped, sloping, slopingly, transversal, underhand, wry). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

筋交い (brace, diagonal), 斜交い (aslant, diagonal), 斜交 (aslant, diagonal). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すじかい (brace, diagonal), はすかい (aslant, diagonal). (various references)

Korean 

비스�"�한. (various references)

Manx

stramlagh, lieh-scoadey, cleaynt (inclined, partisan, rakish angle). (various references)

Pig Latin

obliqueay.(various references)

Portuguese

oblíquo (aslant, aslope, asquint, awry, canted, sideling, sidelong, skew, slanting, sloping, wry), enviesado (canted, skew, slanting). (various references)

Romanian

oblic (aslant, asquint, athwart, bias, diagonal, inclined, obliquely, sidelong, skew, slanting, sloping, splay, squint, transverse), pieziş (askew, aslant, asquint, awry, hostile, obliquely, scowling, slanting, splay, wry), indirect (backhand, circuitous, circumlocutory, circumstantial, collateral, indirect, indirectly, intermediate, reflex, roundabout), înclinat (aslope, atilt, declivous, inclinable, inclined, lop-sided, minded, overhung, prone, rising, slanting, sloping, splay, squint). (various references)

Russian 

косой (bevel, cock eyed, cock-eye, cross-eyed, leer, sidelong, skew, slantindicular, slanting, slantingdicular, splay, squinteyed, squint-eyed, thwart, walleyed). (various references)

Scottish

tarsuinn (across, that crosses, transverse), claon (go aside, inclining, partial, squint). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaobilazan (devious, indirect, roundabout), posredan (indirect, interfering, intermediary, mediate), neiskren (affected, devious, disingenuous, double-tongued, fulsome, hollow-hearted, insincere, left handed, lip-deep), kosa linija, kos (awry, bevel, lop-sided, ousel, ouzel, skew, slant, slantindicular, slanting, slantwise, sloping, traverse). (various references)

Spanish

inclinado (bowed, inclinable, inclined, induced, leaned, slanted, slanting, sloped, tilted, wanted, wrong), oblicuo (aslant, eluding, evasive, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skew). (various references)

Swedish

sned (askew, cock eyed, cockeyed, crooked, lop-sided, sidelong, skew, slanting, wry), skev (askew, lop-sided, skew, warped, wry). (various references)

Thai

เฉียง (aslant), อ้อมๆ. (various references)

Turkish

yoldan çıkmış (off base, reprobate), sapmak (bear, deflect, detour, deviate, digress, diverge, diverge from, lapse, lead away from, sheer, sheer away, sheer from, sheer off, slant, stray, swerve, swing, turn, turn aside, turn off, turn up, wander, wander off), meyletmek (be inclined, incline, lean, verge, verge on), meyilli (aslant, aslope, bias, declivitous, downhill, inclinable, inclined, leaning, on the slope, prone, skew, slant, slanting, slantwise, sloping, subject to, tilting), eğri (aslant, aslope, awry, bent, cambered, cockeyed, crooked, curve, graph, out of the straight, sinuous, skew, skewed, slanting, sloping, slouching, slouchy, tortuous, trajectory, untrue, warped, wry), eğik (bevel, drooping, droopy, inclined, leaning, on the slope, skewed, slanting, sloping, threshold), dolaylı (circuitous, constructive, indirect, mediate, remote, roundabout, secondhand), dolambaçlı (circuitous, circular, devious, indirect, labyrinthine, roundabout, serpentine, shuffling, sinuous, tortuous, winding). (various references)

Turkmen 

gyяa (slanting), зasy (slanting, squinty-eyed). (various references)

Ukrainian

скісний (slant), кружний (circuitous, circular), коса лінія, косий (askew, awry, bevel, boss-eyed, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, diagonal, sidelong, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skew, slant, slanting, splay), відхилений від паралелі, обхідний (circuitous, circular, devious, roundabout, wormy), нерівносторонній (scalene), непрямий (devious, implied, indirect, sideway, sideways, sidewise, vicarious), просуватися навскоси, похила лінія, похилий (askew, aslope, canting, declining, downhill, inclined, prone, sidelong, slanting, sloping), перспективний аерофотознімок. (various references)

Vietnamese 

xiên (askew, asquint, bias, slanting, slantways, slantwise), quanh co (anfractuous, crinkum-crankum, crooked, mazy, meanderingly, meandrine, sinuous, tortuous, twisty), chếch cạnh khoé, chéo (crosswise). (various references)

Welsh

lletbai (askew, awry), gw+yr (crooked, Gower, sloping). (various references)

plagios. (various references)

obliquae, obliquas. (various references)

twerh. (various references)

biasis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "oblique": obliqued, obliquely, obliqueness, obliquenesses, obliques. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Oblique" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bloque, obilque, obique, obleque, obligue, obliqiue, obliqu, obliquay, obliques, obliquey, obliqure, obliquum, obliquy, oblisque, olblique, oliua, Robiquet, ubique. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: boule, louie, obeli.

-3 letters: bile, blue, boil, bole, lieu, lobe, lube.

-4 letters: bel, bio, lei, leu, lib, lie, lob, obe, obi, oil, ole.

-5 letters: be, bi, bo, el, li, lo, oe.

+1 letter: beliquor, obliqued, obliques.

+2 letters: beliquors, obliquely, obloquies, quodlibet.

+3 letters: beliquored, quodlibets.

+4 letters: beliquoring, obliqueness, obliquities.

+5 letters: equilibrator, equiprobable, obsequiously, questionable, questionably.