breadthways

1. 1.

   in the direction of the breadth

   “cut the cloth breadthwise”

   Synonymsbreadthwisebroadwise

Questions about breadthways

What does breadthways mean?

breadthways means "in the direction of the breadth".

How many syllables are in breadthways?

breadthways has 3 syllables: bre-adth-ways. The stress falls on "bre".

What is another word for breadthways?

Close synonyms include breadthwise, broadwise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breadthways a common word?

breadthways is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.