Shapes
Synonyms for diagonally
Synonyms for diagonally: slantwise and obliquely. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for diagonally
Interchangeable with diagonally in this sense
Audited under diagonally's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one diagonally carries in that sense.
- slantwiseadverb, in the sense "in a slanting direction, at an angle rather than straight across"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name diagonally as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- obliquelyobliquely is an adverb in the sense "at a slanting angle, neither straight up-and-down nor straight across"
The first group is filed under diagonally's own sense. The second reaches diagonally from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
in a slanting direction, at an angle rather than straight across
The path cut diagonally across the square instead of following its straight sides.
The true synonym
slantwise
Same sentence, swapped: The path cut slantwise across the square instead of following its straight sides.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for diagonally in the sentence quoted.
- briskly
- leisurely
- quietly
Where diagonally turns up in the game
diagonally is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play diagonally
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so diagonally reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from shapes at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. diagonally carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.