Horizontally

adv

adv ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a horizontal direction or position.

    "Japanese can be written horizontally as well as vertically."

  2. 2
    In a horizontal manner (any sense).

    "an organism transmitted horizontally"

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a horizontal direction wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
evenlyflatflushlengthwiselevel

Example

More examples

"Unlike waves that break along the shore, Rossby waves are huge, undulating movements of the ocean that stretch horizontally across the planet for hundreds of kilometers in a westward direction."

Etymology

From horizontal + -ly.

Related phrases

horizontally challengedhorizontally integrated

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