Definitions from Wiktionary ( )

▸ 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.

---

▸ Word origin

▸ Words similar to oblique
▸ Usage examples for oblique

▸ Idioms related to oblique
▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing oblique
▸ Popular nouns described by oblique
▸ Words that often appear near oblique
▸ Rhymes of oblique

▸ Invented words related to oblique