sideways

• POS: Adjective, Adverb
• HYPHEN: side=ways

CIDE DICTIONARY

sideways, adv. 

 Toward the side; sidewise.  [1913 Webster]
"A second refraction made sideways."  [1913 Webster]
"His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . .
Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sideways, adv. & adj.
--adv.
1 to or from a side (moved sideways).
2 with one side facing forward (sat sideways on the bus).
--adj. to or from a side (a sideways movement).

Derivative

sidewise adv. & adj.

THESAURUS

sideways

across, across the grain, aside, askance, askant, aslant, aslope, asquint, at an angle, athwart, athwartships, breadthwise, broad side foremost, broadside, broadside on, broadways, broadwise, circuitously, contrariwise, contrawise, crabwise, crisscross, cross, cross-grained, crossway, crossways, crosswise, depthwise, deviately, deviously, digressively, divagationally, divergently, edgeway, edgeways, edgewise, excursively, flanking, glancing, glancingly, indirectly, laterad, lateral, laterally, lee, leeward, next-beside, obliquely, on its side, on one side, on the beam, overthwart, right and left, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sidewise, sidling, skirting, slantingly, slantways, slantwise, slaunchways, through, thwart, thwartly, thwartways, to one side, transverse, transversely, traverse, weather, widthways, widthwise, windward

ROGET THESAURUS

sideways

Laterality

N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.