Oblique is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.
You can make 92 anagrams from letters in oblique (beiloqu).
Definitions for oblique
noun
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something that is oblique.
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Grammar. an oblique case.
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Anatomy. any of several oblique muscles, especially in the walls of the abdomen.
adverb
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Military. at an angle of 45°.
adjective
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neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
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(of a solid) not having the axis perpendicular to the plane of the base.
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diverging from a given straight line or course.
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not straight or direct, as a course.
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indirectly stated or expressed; not straightforward:
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indirectly aimed at or reached, as ends or results; deviously achieved.
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morally, ethically, or mentally wrong; underhand; perverse.
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Typography. (of a letter) slanting toward the right, as a form of sans-serif, gothic, or square-serif type.
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Rhetoric. indirect (applied to discourse in which the original words of a speaker or writer are assimilated to the language of the reporter).
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Anatomy. pertaining to muscles running obliquely in the body as opposed to those running transversely or longitudinally.
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Botany. having unequal sides, as a leaf.
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Grammar. noting or pertaining to any case of noun inflection except nominative and vocative:
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Drafting. designating a method of projection (oblique projection) in which a three-dimensional object is represented by a drawing (oblique drawing) in which the face, usually parallel to the picture plane, is represented in accurate or exact proportion, and all other faces are shown at any convenient angle other than 90°.
Compare axonometric, cabinet (def 19), isometric (def 5).
verb (used without object)
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Military. to change direction obliquely.
Origin of oblique
1400-50; late Middle English oblike Latin oblīquus slanting; see ob- (second element obscure)
Examples for oblique
The Playlist, on the other hand, called it “too oblique, too delighted with itself, and frankly, too dull to admire…much.”
oblique: any direction between perpendicular and horizontal.
His Highness held the bottle at an oblique angle with the chandelier.
They are tied so that they stand in a vertical or oblique position.
The columns are frequently laced with oblique references to her family.
The definition of “innuendo,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “an oblique allusion.”
This is an oblique way of saying that Marduk succeeded where Ea failed.
The launch, bathed in its oblique rays, could not lose sight of it.
An oblique view of baseball full of hijinks, havoc, and humor, this is fandom to the extreme.
The historical event, however, serves as an oblique background for the novel.