Usually means: Not direct; slanted or angled.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word oblique:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. oblique: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. oblique: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oblique: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. oblique: Collins English Dictionary
  5. oblique: Vocabulary.com
  6. Oblique, oblique: Wordnik
  7. oblique, oblique (stroke): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. oblique: Wiktionary
  9. oblique: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. oblique: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. oblique: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. oblique: Dictionary.com
  13. oblique: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. oblique: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Oblique (album), Oblique (botany), Oblique: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Oblique: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. oblique: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. oblique: Rhymezone
  19. oblique, oblique, oblique (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. oblique: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. oblique: Free Dictionary
  22. oblique: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. oblique: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. oblique: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oblique: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oblique: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. oblique: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oblique: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oblique: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See obliquely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
adjective:  Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
adjective:  Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
adjective:  Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
adjective:  (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
adjective:  (botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
adjective:  (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
adjective:  (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
adjective:  (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
noun:  (geometry) An oblique line.
noun:  (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
noun:  (grammar) The oblique case.
noun:  (exercise) The musculus obliquus externus abdominis or also obliquus internus abdominis.
verb:  (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew;
verb:  (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.

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