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squint

squint is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective, noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 16 senses

Definitions

  1. adjective. Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
  2. noun. Fig.: Looking askance.
  3. intransitive verb. To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
  4. intransitive verb. To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.
  5. intransitive verb. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
  6. transitive verb. To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
  7. transitive verb. To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
  8. noun. The act or habit of squinting.
  9. noun. A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
  10. noun. Same as Hagioscope.
  11. noun. the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed
  12. noun. abnormal alignment of one or both eyes

    Synonyms: strabismus

  13. verb. cross one's eyes as if in strabismus

    "The children squinted so as to scare each other"

    Synonyms: squinch

  14. verb. partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light

    "The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield"

  15. verb. be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus
  16. adjective. (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"

    Synonyms: askance, askant, asquint, sidelong, squinty

Synonyms

strabismus, squinch, askance, askant, asquint, sidelong, squinty

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in squint:

quints

Common word forms

squints, squinted, squinter, squintly, squintest, squinting, squintness

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