Word Study
sideways
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]
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).
--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, windwardROGET 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.For further exploring for "sideways" in Webster Dictionary Online