atilt

Adjective Satellite

• departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal

Adj

• At an angle from the vertical or horizontal.

Adv

• At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over.
• Tilting or as if tilting (charging with a lance, like a knight on horseback in a joust).

Prep

• Diagonally over or across.

Adjective

• In a tilted or slanting position.

Examples

• He wore his hat rakishly atilt.
• The child listened, her head atilt.
• The letter ’X’ was atilt on the square, its fate hanging in the balance.
• to run / ride atilt at someone or something

Synonyms

canted, leaning, tilted, tipped, aslant

Anagrams of atilt