diagonal

diagonal is a 8-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides.
2. noun. A right line drawn from one angle to another not adjacent, of a figure of four or more sides, and dividing it into two parts.
3. noun. A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel.
4. noun. A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.
5. noun. a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

   Synonyms: separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule

6. noun. (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry
7. noun. an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard

   "the bishop moves on the diagonals"

8. noun. a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric

   Synonyms: bias

9. noun. (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
10. adjective. having an oblique or slanted direction

    Synonyms: aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping

11. adjective. connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face

    "a diagonal line across the page"

Synonyms

separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule, bias, aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in diagonal:

ganoidal, gonadial

Common word forms

diagonals, diagonally, diagonalise, diagonality, diagonalize

Words from these letters

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