diagonal

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: di=ag=o=nal

OXFORD DICTIONARY

diagonal, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 crossing a straight-sided figure from corner to corner.
2 slanting, oblique.
--n. a straight line joining two non-adjacent corners.

Derivative

diagonally adv.

Etymology

L diagonalis f. Gk diagonios (as DIA-, gonia angle)

THESAURUS

diagonal

across, air line, athwart, axis, band, bar, beeline, bend, bendwise, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, biaswise, catercorner, catercornered, chord, cross-hatching, crossways, crosswise, dash, delineation, diameter, direct line, directrix, dotted line, edge, great-circle course, hachure, hairline, hatching, kittycorner, line, lineation, normal, oblique, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, perpendicular, radius, radius vector, rhomboid, right line, score, scratch comma, secant, segment, separatrix, shortcut, side, slant, slanted, slanting, slash, solidus, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streak, streaking, streamline, striation, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, tangent, thwart, transversal, transverse, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, vector, virgule