Crosswise

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crosswise \Cross"wise`\ (-w?z`), adv.
     In the form of a cross; across; transversely. --Longfellow.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  crosswise
       adj 1: lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a
              cross direction; "a crosswise street"; "the crosswise
              dimension" [ant: {lengthwise}]
       2: in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross
       adv 1: not in the intended manner; "things are going crosswise"
       2: transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across" [syn: {across},
           {crossways}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "crosswise":
     across, across the grain, athwart, athwartships, awkward, bendwise,
     bias, biased, biaswise, bulky, catercorner, catercornered, choking,
     clumsy, constrictive, contrariwise, contrary, contrawise,
     counterproductive, crisscross, cross, cross-grained, crossing,
     crossway, crossways, cumbersome, diagonal, hindering, hindersome,
     hulking, hulky, impractical, in the way, inconvenient, inhibiting,
     inhibitive, interrupting, interruptive, kittycorner, oblique,
     obliquely, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent, occlusive,
     overthwart, perverse, ponderous, repressive, restrictive, sideways,
     sidewise, slant, stifling, strangling, suppressive, thwart,
     thwartly, thwartways, transversal, transverse, transversely,
     traverse, troublesome, unhandy, unmanageable, unwieldy