Jill looked at John sideways.
Source: tatoeba (52490)
Sideways
//ˈsaɪdweɪz//
Synonyms for "sideways" (100 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (30)
Related words (50)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
2 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
6 entriesform of
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
11 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
47 translations across 13 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- λέχριος adj (moving or directed towards one side)
- λικριφίς adv (with a side to the front)
Dutch
1 entries- zijwaarts adv (with a side to the front)
Finnish
4 entries- sivuttainen adj (moving or directed towards one side)
- sivulle adv (towards one side)
- sivuttain adv (with a side to the front)
- sivuttain adv (towards one side)
French
3 entries- de côté adv (with a side to the front)
- de côté adv (towards one side)
- de travers adv (askance)
German
4 entries- Seiten adj (moving or directed towards one side)
- auf der Stelle tretend adj (neither moving up nor moving down)
- seitlich adj (moving or directed towards one side)
- seitlich adj (positioned sideways)
Irish
2 entries- cliathánach adj (moving or directed towards one side)
- cliathánach adj (positioned sideways)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- ì adj (moving or directed towards one side)
Latin
1 entries- oblīquē adv (with a side to the front)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- sidelengs adv (towards one side)
- sideveis adv (towards one side)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sidelengs adv (towards one side)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- dwäa adv (towards one side)
Polish
4 entries- bokiem adj (moving or directed towards one side)
- bokiem adj (positioned sideways)
- na bok adj (neither moving up nor moving down)
- bokiem adv (with a side to the front)
Spanish
4 entries- de costado adj (moving or directed towards one side)
- de lado adj (moving or directed towards one side)
- de refilón adj (moving or directed towards one side)
- de reojo adj (moving or directed towards one side)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
This inefficiency is a result of the animal's large body and massive legs and feet, which contribute a sideways motion to its walk.
Source: tatoeba (60382)
As the road was wet, the car must have slipped sideways.
Source: tatoeba (280376)
He edged sideways through the crowd.
Source: tatoeba (328744)
Showing 4 of 26 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.