perpendicularly

1. 1.

   straight up or down without a break

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2. 2.

   in a perpendicular manner

   “this red line runs perpendicularly to the green line”

Questions about perpendicularly

What does perpendicularly mean?

perpendicularly means "straight up or down without a break". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in perpendicularly?

perpendicularly has 6 syllables: per-pen-di-cu-lar-ly. The stress falls on "cu".

What is another word for perpendicularly?

Close synonyms include sheer. 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 perpendicularly a common word?

perpendicularly 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.