right triangle

1. 1.

   a triangle with one right angle

   Synonymsright-angled triangle

   Antonymsoblique triangle

   Broadertriangle

   Partshypotenuse

Questions about right triangle

What does right triangle mean?

right triangle means "a triangle with one right angle".

What is another word for right triangle?

Close synonyms include right-angled triangle. 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 right triangle?

The recorded antonyms are oblique triangle.

Is right triangle a common word?

right triangle 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.