aslant

UK /əˈslænt/ US /əˈslænt/

adj 1adv 1prep 1

Definitions

adj

Slanting.

Near-synonym: askance

As for the manner and fashion of the cut [when pruning grapevines], it ought alwaies to be aslant, like a goats foot, that no drops of raine may settle and rest thereupon, but that euery shower may soon shoot off:

adv

At a slant.

The Shaft that slightly was impress’d, Now from his heavy Fall with weight increas’d, Drove through his Neck, aslant,

It [the light] led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog;

prep

Diagonally over or across.

There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.

Ye Ladies of Lapland who beesoms bestride, Or, pair’d in Witch Whiskeys, aslant the Moon slide;

Collocations

ADJ.

light, over

VERB + ASLANT

grows, led, uprooted

ASLANT + NOUN

brook, goats, hill, mud

PREP.

through

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — having an oblique or slanted direction

aslope
diagonal
slanted
slanting
sloped
sloping

adverb — at an oblique angle

obliquely
athwart

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Near-synonym: askance

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But their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans; nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians; nor from up to down, like the Chinese; no

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The Shaft that slightly was impress’d, Now from his heavy Fall with weight increas’d, Drove through his Neck, aslant,

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It [the light] led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog;

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1914, Constance Garnett (translator), Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1917, Part 4, Chapter 4, p. 321, A wall with three windows looking out on to the canal r

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, aslant is marked as archaic, literary. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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