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say it: KRAW-swahyz
crosswise is an adjective and adverb meaning "lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction". It carries 4 recorded senses.
lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction
“a crosswise street”
“the crosswise dimension”
in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross
not in the intended manner
“things are going crosswise”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for crosswise come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.