oblique

1. 1.

   slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled

   “the oblique rays of the winter sun”

   “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”

   “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”

   Antonymsparallelperpendicular

   Similarbiascatacornercrabwisediagonalnonparalleloblique-angled
2. 2.

   indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading

   “used devious means to achieve success”

   “gave oblique answers to direct questions”

   “oblique political maneuvers”

   Synonymsdevious

   Similarindirect

Other forms of oblique

plural

obliques·

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.

Questions about oblique

What does oblique mean?

oblique means "any grammatical case other than the nominative". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oblique?

oblique has 2 syllables: obliq-ue. The stress falls on "ue". In IPA it is /əˈblik/.

What is another word for oblique?

Close synonyms include oblique case, external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis, abdominal external oblique muscle, devious. 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.

What is the opposite of oblique?

The recorded antonyms are nominative, parallel, perpendicular.

Is oblique a common word?

oblique is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with oblique?

1 word rhymes with oblique. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.