tangential

Speech parts

1. tangential - Adjective

2. tangential - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

digressive minor secondary approaching peripheral marginal accidental subsidiary touching insignificant incidental extrinsic immaterial inconsequential extraneous

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Antonyms

central material necessary apropos core appropriate

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Phrases with the word

as a tangential remark

Anagrams

antitangle

Examples

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. Alfred Jarry

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life. Thomas Haden Church

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was. Tony Judt

a digressive allusion to the day of the week Source: Internet

a tangential remark Source: Internet

tangential forces Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

tangent plane tangent space tangental tangential velocity tangentiality tangentialize