That pole is not quite vertical.
Source: tatoeba (45096)
Vertical
//ˈvɜː.tɪ.kəl//
Synonyms for "vertical" (104 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (31)
Related words (52)
Adjective(2 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Noun(2 words)
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2 entriesderived
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1 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
similar
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
Translations
96 translations across 55 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- رَأْسِيّ adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- عَمُودِيّ adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Armenian
1 entries- ուղղահայաց adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Assamese
1 entries- থিয় adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Asturian
1 entries- vertical adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- şaquli adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Belarusian
2 entries- вертыка́льны adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- проставе́сны adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Bengali
1 entries- খাড়া adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Bulgarian
2 entries- вертика́лен adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- отвесен adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Catalan
1 entries- vertical adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- ئەستوونی adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- ستوونی adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 垂直 adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- 直立 adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- 豎的 /竖的 adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Czech
2 entries- svislý adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- vertikální adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Danish
1 entries- lodret adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Dutch
1 entries- verticaal adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Esperanto
1 entries- vertikala adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Estonian
1 entries- vertikaal adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Finnish
3 entries- pysty adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- pystysuora adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- pystysuuntainen adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
French
1 entries- vertical adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Galician
1 entries- vertical adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Georgian
2 entries- ვერტიკალური adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- შვეული adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
German
2 entries- senkrecht adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- vertikal adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Greek
2 entries- κάθετος adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- κατακόρυφος adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Hebrew
1 entries- אֲנָכִי adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Hindi
2 entries- ऊर्ध्वाधर adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- लंबवत् adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Hungarian
2 entries- függőleges adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- vertikális adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Icelandic
1 entries- lóðrétt adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Italian
1 entries- verticale adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Japanese
3 entries- 垂直の adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- 直立の adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- 縦の adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Korean
1 entries- 수직의 adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Latvian
1 entries- vertikāls adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Lithuanian
1 entries- vertikalus adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Macedonian
1 entries- вертикален adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Malay
3 entries- mencancang adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- menegak adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- vertikal adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Moore
2 entries- selle adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- tĩidga adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Māori
4 entries- poutū adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- torotika adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- tūhoehoe adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- tūmāhoehoe adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- stûnî adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- loddrett adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- vertikal adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- loddrett adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- vertikal adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Old English
1 entries- upriht adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Persian
4 entries- ایستاده adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- راست adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- عمودی adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- قائم adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Polish
2 entries- pionowy adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- wertykalny adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Portuguese
1 entries- vertical adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Romanian
1 entries- vertical adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Russian
2 entries- вертика́льный adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- отве́сный adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- dìreach adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- uspravan adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- vertikalan adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- вертикалан adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- усправан adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Slovak
2 entries- kolmý adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- vertikálny adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Slovene
2 entries- navpičen adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- vertikalen adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Spanish
1 entries- vertical adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Swedish
2 entries- lodrät adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- vertikal adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Tagalog
1 entries- tayo adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Thai
3 entries- ตรงดิ่ง adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- ตั้งฉาก adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- ตั้งตรง adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Turkish
1 entries- dikey adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Ukrainian
3 entries- вертика́льний adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- дозе́мний adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
- прямови́сний adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Welsh
1 entries- fertigol adj (being perpendicular to horizontal)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
The giant plane screamed down in an almost vertical dive.
Source: tatoeba (45496)
Keep away from the vertical cliff!
Source: tatoeba (45821)
The cliff is almost vertical.
Source: tatoeba (48970)
Showing 4 of 15 available sentences.
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