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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | oblique | Slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled |
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| 2 | oblique, devious | Indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way | |
| NOUN | 1 | oblique, oblique case | Any grammatical case other than the nominative |
| 2 | oblique, external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis, abdominal external oblique muscle | A diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso |
| Sounds | ahbliy'k |
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| Rhymes | antique, batik, beak, and 50 more rhymes in iyk... |
| Meaning | Slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled. |
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| Examples | "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base" |
| Contrary | parallel; perpendicular |
| Similar | bias; catacorner, cata-cornered, catercorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered; crabwise, sideways; diagonal; nonparallel; oblique-angled |
| See also | convergent; divergent, diverging; inclined |
| Nouns | obliqueness |
| Adverbs | obliquely |
| Meaning | Indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way. Misleading. |
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| Examples | "gave oblique answers to direct questions"; "oblique political maneuvers" |
| Synonyms | devious |
| Similar to | indirect |
| Nouns | obliqueness; obliquity |
| Meaning | Any grammatical case other than the nominative. |
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| Synonyms | oblique case |
| Contrary | nominative, nominative case, subject case |
| Broader | case, grammatical case |
| Narrower | accusative, accusative case, objective case; dative, dative case; genitive, genitive case, possessive, possessive case; vocative, vocative case; ablative, ablative case |
| Meaning | A diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso. |
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| Synonyms | external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis, abdominal external oblique muscle |
| Broader | abdominal, abdominal muscle, ab |
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