oblique — OET

oblique

adjective

1 an oblique line:

slanting, slanted, sloping, at an angle, angled, diagonal, aslant, slant, slantwise, sloped, inclined, inclining, tilted, tilting, atilt, skew, on the skew, askew;

Scottish squint;

North American cater-cornered, catty-cornered, kitty-corner.

▷antonyms straight.

2 an oblique reference to the president:

indirect, inexplicit, roundabout, circuitous, circumlocutory, implicit, implied, elliptical, evasive, backhanded;

rare circumlocutionary, ambagious.

▷antonyms direct, explicit.

3 he cast her an oblique glance:

sidelong, sideways, furtive, covert, sly, surreptitious.

noun

slash, forward slash, solidus, oblique stroke, backslash, diagonal, virgule, slant.

oblique Oxford Dictionary of English