sideways

Speech parts

1. sideways - Noun

2. sideways - Adjective

3. sideways - Adverb

5. sideways - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Toward the side; sidewise.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

obliquely across laterally slanting crosswise sidewise sidelong slantwise crossways sideway crabwise windward side transverse broadside
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Antonyms

across direct gradation bashful layer parallel
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Phrases with the word

knocked sideways circular sideways handspring sideways somersault sideways angle go fuck yourself sideways sideways handspring

Examples

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel. Jacques-Yves Cousteau

"Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide. Thomas Pynchon

No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Virginia Woolf

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families. Karen Joy Fowler

You may look up for inspiration or look down in desperation but do not look sideways for information. Hindi Proverb

Close letter words and terms

sidewardly sidewards sideway sideways angle sideways axis sideways direction