tilted

1. 1.

   departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal

   “the leaning tower of Pisa”

   “the headstones were tilted”

   Synonymsatiltcantedleaningtipped

   Similarinclined

Other forms of tilted

comparative

tiltedder·

superlative

tilteddest·

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 tilted

What does tilted mean?

tilted means "departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal".

How many syllables are in tilted?

tilted has 2 syllables: til-ted. The stress falls on "til". In IPA it is /ˈtɪltɪd/.

What is another word for tilted?

Close synonyms include atilt, canted, leaning, tipped. 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 tilted a common word?

tilted 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.