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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction;
- Example: "a crosswise street"
- Example: "the crosswise dimension"

2. in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross;


ADVERB (2)

1. not in the intended manner;
- Example: "things are going crosswise"

2. transversely;
- Example: "the marble slabs were cut across"
[syn: across, crosswise, crossways]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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