oblique
/əˈblik/
verb
- To move or lie at a slanting angle.
- The runner obliqued across the field to avoid the mud.
- The sun obliqued through the trees in the late afternoon.
- The road obliques to the left after the bridge.
adjective
- Not direct or straightforward; indirect in expression or meaning.
- She gave an oblique answer to avoid revealing the secret.
- His oblique criticism was hard to understand at first.
- The politician's oblique remarks left everyone guessing his true position.
- Slanting or sloping; not parallel or at a right angle.
- The roof has an oblique angle to allow rain to run off.
- The artist drew an oblique line across the canvas.
- We followed an oblique path up the mountain instead of climbing straight up.
- In grammar, referring to any case other than the nominative or vocative.
- In Latin, nouns change their form in the oblique cases.
- Students learn the oblique cases to understand sentence structure.
- The pronoun 'him' is an oblique form of 'he'.
noun
- A slanting or sloping line, surface, or direction.
- The architect drew an oblique to show the slope of the roof.
- The dancer moved in a series of obliques and curves.
- The path cut an oblique across the field.