catty-corner
3 definitions found
catty-corner - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
catty-corner \catty-corner\ catty-cornered \catty-cornered\adj.
1. Having a slanted or oblique direction.
Syn: bias, catacorner, cata-cornered, catercorner,
cater-cornered, diagonal, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered,
oblique, skew, skewed, slanted.
[WordNet 1.5]
catty-corner - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
catty-corner
adj 1: slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line; "set off in
a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot" [syn:
catacorner, cata-cornered, catercorner, cater- cornered
, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty- corner
, kitty-cornered]
catty-corner - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "cattycorner":
across, athwart, bendwise, bias, biased, biaswise, catercorner,
catercornered, catercornerways, cornerways, cornerwise, crossways,
crosswise, diagonal, diagonally, diagonalwise, kittycorner,
on the bias, slant, thwart, transverse
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