adj. 1
Transverse; lying across the main direction.
At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
adj. 2
Opposite, opposed to.
His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.
v. 1
To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.
n. 1
A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.

Related words

Word family: crosshead crosslike crossline crossroads cross-stitch cross-writing crouched crozier
Phrases: cross out cross off cross the line cross-over cross vault cross up cross tab cross tabulation
Is a kind of: charge

Forms

Plural: crosses → crossbreedings, interbreedings, hybridizations, marks…
Past participle: crossed
e.g. crossed → traversed, tracked, covered, thwarted…

waspish Why does Tom act so WASPish around them?
splenetic His splenetic father threatened to spank him if he didn't behave himself.

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

2 letters: go¹
3 letters: mad¹
4 letters: mark¹, ugly², span¹, sore¹, sour², foil¹, rood¹
5 letters: cover², track¹, trial², angry², upset², sweep¹, spoil¹, surly², testy²
6 letters: cancel², hybrid², scotch¹, touchy², thwart¹, crusty², sullen², baffle², gibbet
7 letters: trouble², opposed², reverse², crucial², annoyed², adverse², cynical³, anguish², grouchy², mongrel, saltire, fretful², peevish², waspish
8 letters: opposite³, contrary³, traverse², perverse², obstruct², crucifix³, swastika³, snarling², petulant³, churlish², choleric³
9 letters: interfere³, intersect³, irritable⁴, frustrate², fractious², cruciform, hybridize³, splenetic, hybridise
10 letters: misfortune³, transverse², reciprocal⁴, affliction³, contravene³, interbreed
11 letters: transversal
13 letters: hybridization⁵, interbreeding, crossbreeding, hybridisation

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ugly² = 2 syllables).