Dictionary Entry
sidelong
sidelong is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as adverb and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side. 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 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adverb
Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.
- 2adverb
On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong.
- 3adjective
Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance.
- 4adjective
(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy- Elizabeth Bowen
"her eyes with their misted askance look"
"sidelong glances"
- 5adjective
inclining or directed to one side - Bram Stoker
"moved downward in a sidelong way"
- 6adjective
situated at or extending to the side- Tennyson
"the lateral branches of a tree"
"shot out sidelong boughs"
Synonyms
- 7adverb
to, toward or at one side
"darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
- 8adverb
with the side toward someone or something- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"seated sidelong to the window"
- 9adverb
on the side
"the plow lay sidelong on the ground"
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