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diagonal
adjective as in having an oblique direction
Strong match
Weak matches
- askew
- beveled
- cater-corner
- cater-cornered
- catercorner
- catty-cornered
- kitty-corner
- kitty-cornered
- skewing
- slanting
- transversal
- transverse
Example Sentences
This bold diagonal, cut through the prim Quaker street grid, produced a great many awkwardly shaped blocks, including the pointy trapezoid between the Parkway and the Vine Street Expressway that houses Calder Gardens.
The fourth goal came in stoppage time when Berterame finished off a diagonal cross from the right.
Yet it was another Tigers replacement, Perese, who stole the show almost instantly, hitting the line at full tilt just inside the Sale half and scorching away on a diagonal run to the left corner.
Be sure to arrange the strawberries in the same direction and in a diagonal line with one on each side of the middle strawberry.
Lewis booted a penalty as Rovers piled on the pressure after the restart and then cracked the French side when Broadbent spotted a gap and launched a scorching diagonal run through to the posts.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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