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slant

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of slant

running in a slanting direction
  • as they poked through the blinds, the slant rays of the setting sun created interesting patterns on the room's far wall
Synonyms of slant

cant, canted, diagonal, graded, inclined, leaning, listing, oblique, pitched, raked, slanted, slantwise, sloped, sloping, tilted, tilting
Near Antonyms of slant

horizontal, level

plumb, up-and-down, vertical

parallel, perpendicular

slant

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of slant

1 the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon
  • the road has just enough of a slant to make bicycling up it a little strenuous
Synonyms of slant

cant, diagonal, grade, gradient, inclination, incline, lean, pitch, rake, slope, upgrade
Words Related to slant

ascent, bank, climb, rise
Near Antonyms of slant

declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, dip, downgrade, fall, hang, hanging, receding
2 a way of looking at or thinking about something
  • an interesting slant on the problem of underage drinking
Synonyms of slant

angle, eye view, outlook, perspective, shoes, standpoint, vantage point, viewpoint
Words Related to slant

interpretation, spin

belief, conviction, eye, feeling, judgment (or judgement), mind, mind-set, notion, opinion, perception, persuasion, sentiment, verdict, view

impression, take
Phrases Synonymous with slant

frame of reference, point of view

slant

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of slant

1 to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
  • reporters who slant the truth in order to push a political agenda
Synonyms of slant

bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, garble, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warp
Words Related to slant

misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslate

belie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewash

bowdlerize, censor

complicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up)

mystify, obscure

equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate
Near Antonyms of slant

clarify, clear (up), explain, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, spell out

decipher
2 to set or cause to be at an angle
  • a ramp slanted at a 20 degree angle
Synonyms of slant

angle, cant, cock, heel, incline, lean, list, pitch, slope, tilt, tip
Words Related to slant

bank

bend, deviate, swerve, veer

decline, descend, recline, retreat
Near Antonyms of slant

even, flatten, level, straighten

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