oblique /ō- or ə-blēkˈ/

1. Slanting
2. Neither perpendicular nor parallel
3. Not at right angles
4. Not parallel to an axis
5. Not straightforward
6. Indirect
7. Underhand
8. Not a right angle (geometry)
9. Having the axis not perpendicular to the plane of the base
10. Skew
11. Asymmetrical about the midrib (botany)
12. Of the monoclinic system (crystallography)

1. An oblique line, figure, muscle, etc
2. An oblique movement or advance, esp one about 45º from the original direction

1. To deviate from a direct line or from the perpendicular, to slant
2. To advance obliquely by facing half right or left and then advancing

To turn aslant

obliquation /ob-li-kwāˈshən/ noun (obsolete)

Obliqueness

obliqueˈly adverb

obliqueness /-blēkˈ/ or obliquity /ob-likˈwi-ti/ noun

1. The state of being oblique
2. A slanting direction
3. Crookedness of outlook, thinking or conduct, or an instance of it
4. Irregularity (obsolete)

obliquid /ob-likˈwid/ adjective (Spenser)

Oblique

obliqˈuitous adjective

• Nototherium
• Nototrema
• notoungulate
• notoungulates
• notour
• not out
• not-pated
• not proven
• not quite the thing
• Notre-Dame
• no-trump
• no-trumper
• no-trumps
• not say boo to a goose
• not see beyond one's nose
• not see further than the end of one's nose
• not see the wood for the trees
• nott
• not take no for an answer
• not tell chalk from cheese
• not that
• not the end of the world
• not the faintest
• not the full quid
• not the full shilling