SLANTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slanted mean? 

• SLANTED (adjective)
  The adjective SLANTED has 2 senses:

1. having an oblique or slanted direction

2. favoring one person or side over another

  Familiarity information: SLANTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLANTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an oblique or slanted direction

Synonyms:

aslant; aslope; diagonal; slanted; slanting; sloped; sloping

Similar:

inclined (at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Favoring one person or side over another

Synonyms:

biased; colored; coloured; one-sided; slanted

Context example:

a decision that was partial to the defendant

Similar:

partial (showing favoritism)

 Context examples 

Backward, from the apex, his head slanted down to his neck and forward it slanted uncompromisingly to meet a low and remarkably wide forehead.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

At an angle; having an oblique or slanted direction.

(Diagonal, NCI Thesaurus)

It was a large, stately apartment, with purple chairs and curtains, a Turkey carpet, walnut-panelled walls, one vast window rich in slanted glass, and a lofty ceiling, nobly moulded.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Other fronts in similar wave trains tilt significantly with respect to the orientation of the wave train, and still other wave trains follow slanted or meandering paths.

(NASA's Juno Mission Detects Jupiter Wave Trains, NASA)

The hair of this man was long and matted, and his head slanted back under it from the eyes.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I was in the height of my fever when a man entered and whispered to the clerk, who presently slanted me off the scale, and pushed me over to him, as if I were weighed, bought, delivered, and paid for.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Some three feet lower, however, his eye lit upon a long jagged crack which slanted downwards, and this he must reach if he would save not only his own poor life, but that of the eight-score men above him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As she looked full at me, I saw her face grow sharper and paler, and the marks of the old wound lengthen out until it cut through the disfigured lip, and deep into the nether lip, and slanted down the face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)