Synonyms for slant
- verb
- noun
Definitions
- v. 1
To lean, tilt or incline.
If you slant the track a little more, the marble will roll down it faster.
- v. 2
To bias or skew.
a magazine slanted toward the youth market
- n. 1
A slope; an incline, inclination.
The house was built on a bit of a slant and was never quite level.
Related words
- Word family
- slant-eyed slantwise
- Phrases
- slant distance slant line slant of wind slant range slant rhyme
Choose the right word
Slant and slope are said of things somewhat fixed or permanent in a position out of the horizontal or perpendicular; the roof slants, the hill slopes. Incline is a more formal word for tip, and also for slant or slope.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- angle Let's approach the problem from a different angle.
- lean Be careful not to lean too far out of your window.
- slope The sled accelerated as it went down the icy slope.
- tilt I tilt my head. Not the pawn, but the knight?
By length
- 3 letters
- tip1
- 4 letters
- cant1, bias2, lean1, tilt1, rake1
- 5 letters
- angle2, pitch1, slope1, slash1, splay
- 6 letters
- weight1
- 7 letters
- incline2, virgule2
- 11 letters
- inclination4
- 15 letters
- tendentiousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bias2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- biaiser