Word Meanings - SLANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope. On the side of younder slanting hill. Dodsley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SLANT)

• Incline Slope
• bear
• lean
• point
• tend
• dispose
• induce
• dip
• bias
• prompt
• slant
• be disposed

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SLANT)

• Slave
• prevent
• disincline
• dissuade

Related words: (words related to SLANT)

• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• DISPOSURE
  1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.
• DISPOSITED
  Disposed. Glanvill.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• DISPOSITOR
  The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer.
• DISPOSE
  Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in
• DISPOSEDNESS
  The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• DISPOSSESS
  To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• DISPOSED
  1. Inclined; minded. When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts xviii. 27. 2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. Beau. & Fl. Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. Chaucer.
• DISPOSINGLY
  In a manner to dispose.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• REINDUCE
  To induce again.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.