The internal oblique muscle is located beneath the external oblique muscle in the abdominal region of the body.
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Oblique
//oʊˈbliːk//
Synonyms for "oblique" (143 found)
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Closest matches (29)
Strong matches (43)
Related words (71)
gnominioushelicalimpliedinclinedincliningindirectitalicleaningleft handedleft-handedlinemeanderingmusclenonparallelo-shapedoblique angleoblique angledoblique figureoblique lineoffhand
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Adjective(4 words)
Noun(2 words)
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More general
5 entriesAntonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesderived
62 entriesShowing 16 of 62 words.
has context
7 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
12 entriessimilar
25 entriesShowing 16 of 25 words.
Translations
83 translations across 26 languages.
Ancient Greek
3 entries- δοχμός adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- λοξός adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- λοξός adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
Armenian
1 entries- շեղ adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Bulgarian
4 entries- заобиколен adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
- кос adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- наклонен adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- непряк adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
Catalan
2 entries- oblic adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- oblic adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
Czech
4 entries- kosý adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- kosý adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
- křivý adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- nepřímý adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
Dutch
2 entries- indirect adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
- schuin adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Esperanto
1 entries- oblikva adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Finnish
4 entries- epäsuora adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
- hämäräperäinen adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
- kiero adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
- vino adj (not erect or perpendicular)
German
3 entries- oblique adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- schief adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- schräg adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Hungarian
4 entries- alattomos adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
- burkolt adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
- döntött adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- dőlt adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Italian
2 entries- obliquo adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- obliquo adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
Latin
1 entries- oblīquus adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Māori
4 entries- hāhā adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- hōtiu adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- kōnana adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- tītaha adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- skeiv adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- skjev adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Persian
1 entries- اریب adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- scheef (nds) adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Portuguese
1 entries- oblíquo adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Russian
4 entries- ко́свенный adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
- ко́свенный adj (not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral)
- косо́й adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- накло́нный adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Sanskrit
1 entries- जिह्म adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Slovak
4 entries- krivýnepriamy adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
- naklonený adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- nepriamy adj (not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral)
- pokrivený adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
Spanish
3 entries- enviajado adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- oblicuo adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- oblicuo adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
Swedish
4 entries- förtäckt adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
- indirekt adj (not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister)
- lutande adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- skev adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Tagalog
1 entries- talibas adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Thai
1 entries- เฉ adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Turkish
1 entries- eğik adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Ukrainian
2 entries- нахи́лений adj (not erect or perpendicular)
- похи́лий adj (not erect or perpendicular)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
But he did make an oblique reference to the deteriorating human rights situation, one that the White House has increasingly become more public in condemning in recent weeks.
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Italic fonts are sometimes described as oblique in typographic terminology.
Source: wiktionary
when it has a Direction oblique to that of the former Motion, it is either added to, or subtracted from the former Motion
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