lateral thinking

1. 1.

   a heuristic for solving problems; you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on

   Broaderheuristic

Questions about lateral thinking

What does lateral thinking mean?

lateral thinking means "a heuristic for solving problems; you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on".

Is lateral thinking a common word?

lateral thinking 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.