Thesaurus:sideways

Thesaurus

sideways

English

Adverb

Sense: towards the side

Synonyms

• askance
• askant (dated)
• askile (obsolete)
• broadside
• laterally
• sideling
• sidelong
• sidely
• sideward
• sideways
• sidewise
• sideyways (UK dialect)

Antonyms

• backwards
• directly
• forwards
• towards

Hypernyms

• indirectly
• obliquely

See also

• Thesaurus:skewly

Further reading

• “236. laterality” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “sideways” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.