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tilting

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of tilting

running in a slanting direction

  • a rickety, tilting staircase that did not look safe
Synonyms of tilting

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

horizontal, level

plumb, up-and-down, vertical

parallel, perpendicular

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