| ADJECTIVE | all | oblique | slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled |
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| all | oblique, devious | indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way | |
| NOUN | communication | oblique, oblique case | any grammatical case other than the nominative |
| body | oblique, external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis, abdominal external oblique muscle | a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso |
| Sounds | ahbliy'k | |
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| Rhymes | antique ... wreak: 54 rhymes with iyk... | |
| Meaning | slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled. | |
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| Narrower | bias | slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric |
| catacorner, cata-cornered, catercorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered | slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | |
| crabwise, sideways | (of movement) at an angle | |
| diagonal | Connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face | |
| nonparallel | (of e.g. lines or paths) not parallel | |
| oblique-angled | Having oblique angles | |
| See also | convergent | tending to come together from different directions |
| divergent, diverging | tending to move apart in different directions | |
| inclined | At an angle to the horizontal or vertical position | |
| Opposite | parallel | everywhere equidistant and not intersecting |
| perpendicular | intersecting at or forming right angles | |
| Spanish | oblicuo | |
| Catalan | oblic | |
| Nouns | oblique | a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso |
| obliqueness | the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle | |
| Adverbs | obliquely | at an oblique angle |
| Meaning | indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading. | |
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| Synonym | devious | |
| Broader | indirect | Extended senses |
| Spanish | oblicua, oblicuo | |
| Nouns | obliqueness | the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly |
| obliquity | the quality of being deceptive / deceptive | |
| Meaning | Any grammatical case other than the nominative. | |
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| Synonym | oblique case | |
| Narrower | ablative, ablative case | The case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb |
| accusative, accusative case, objective case | The case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb | |
| dative, dative case | The category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb | |
| genitive, genitive case, possessive, possessive case | The case expressing ownership | |
| vocative, vocative case | The case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed | |
| Broader | case, grammatical case | Nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence |
| Opposite | nominative, nominative case, subject case | The category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb |
| Spanish | caso oblicuo, oblicuo | |
| Catalan | cas oblic, oblic | |
| Meaning | A diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso. | |
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| Synonyms | external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis, abdominal external oblique muscle | |
| Broader | abdominal, abdominal muscle, ab | The muscles of the abdomen |
| Spanish | músculo oblicuo externo | |
| Catalan | múscul oblic major de l'abdomen | |
| Adjectives | oblique | slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled |
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