breadthwise

1. 1.

   in the direction of the breadth

   “cut the cloth breadthwise”

   Synonymsbreadthwaysbroadwise

Questions about breadthwise

What does breadthwise mean?

breadthwise means "in the direction of the breadth".

How many syllables are in breadthwise?

breadthwise has 3 syllables: bre-adth-wise. The stress falls on "bre".

What is another word for breadthwise?

Close synonyms include breadthways, 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 breadthwise a common word?

breadthwise 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.