canted
Set at slant
Canted means tilted or set at an angle from the vertical or horizontal.
A canted surface slopes; a canted camera shot creates visual unease.
The word appears in architecture, photography, and military contexts: The canted walls gave the building an unsettling appearance.
He held the gun at a canted angle.
Tending toward, tilted
- angledTurned from perpendicular
- slantedAngled from vertical
- leaningTendency toward something
- askewTilted from true
listing · pitched · raked · banked · cambered · beveled · off-kilter · lopsided
Angled from vertical
- skewedAsymmetrically shifted
- prejudicedBiased against a group
- one-sidedUnfairly weighted toward one
- partisanBiased toward one side
tendentious · jaundiced · partial · subjective · colored · weighted · distorted · spun
inclined
Tending toward, tilted
askew · listing · pitched · raked · banked · cambered · beveled · off-kilter · lopsided · oblique
slanted
Angled from vertical
- skewedAsymmetrically shifted
- prejudicedBiased against a group
- one-sidedUnfairly weighted toward one
partisan · tendentious · jaundiced · partial · subjective · colored · weighted · distorted · spun · loaded
beveled
Cut at an angle
raked · pitched · sloped · angled · tapered · flared · corbeled · faceted · sill · lintel
- crookedcrooked, askew, awry, lopsided, off-center
- leaningtilt, slant, angle, list, pitch
- slantsslant, tilt, lean, incline, slope
- camera angleshigh angle, low angle, eye level, bird's eye view, worm's eye view
- Oblique thingsslant, tilt, angle, diagonal, slope
- positionsabove, behind, below, beside, between
cantedlevel
Horizontal or uniform position
horizontal · vertical · plumb · straight · perpendicular
- thieves' cantCoded criminal vocabulary
- Cantor's theoremPowersets always strictly larger
- cant hookLog-rolling lever tool
recant, incantation, decanter, cant, cantata, cantilever, cantor, canting, descant