catty-cornered

2 definitions found

catty-cornered - 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-cornered - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  catty-cornered
      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]