Word Meanings - ANGLEWISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In an angular manner; angularly.

Related words: (words related to ANGLEWISE)

• ANGULARITY
  The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• ANGULARLY
  In an angular manner; with of at angles or corners. B. Jonson.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• ANGULARNESS
  The quality of being angular.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• ANGULAR
  1. Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure. 2. Measured by an angle; as, angular distance. 3. Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff
• SUBPENTANGULAR
  Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• INANGULAR
  Not angular.
• SEPTANGULAR
  Heptagonal.
• EQUIANGULAR
  Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular. Equiangular spiral. See under Spiral, n. -- Mutually equiangular, applied to two figures, when every angle of the one has its equal among the angles of the other.
• TRIANGULAR
  Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. -- Triangular crab
• RECTANGULARITY
  The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.
• QUADRANGULAR
  Having four angles, and consequently four sides; tetragonal. -- Quad*ran"gu*lar*ly, adv.
• QUINQUANGULAR
  Having five angles or corners.
• SUPRA-ANGULAR
  See SURANGULAR
• SUBANGULAR
  Slightly angular.
• TRIANGULARES
  The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.
• DECANGULAR
  Having ten angles.
• PENTANGULAR
  Having five corners or angles.
• OCTANGULAR
  Having eight angles; eight-angled. -- Oc*tan"gu*lar*ness, n.
• OBTUSE-ANGLED; OBTUSE-ANGULAR
  Having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle.
• SUBTRIANGULAR
  Nearly, but not perfectly, triangular. Darwin.