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sidelong

/ˈsaɪd.lɒŋ/US/ˈsaɪd.lɑŋ/

sidelong adjective: directed to the side; sideways.

Adjective

sidelong (not comparable)

  1. Directed to the side; sideways.
    • He cast me a sidelong glance.
  2. Slanting or sloping; oblique.
  3. Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward.
    • She made some sidelong remarks about his manhood.
  4. Along the side of something.
    • The passenger train was signalled from one of the west end bay platforms along the Down South Line; as it passed through a crossover to the Up South Line the freight train, which had been travelling slowly to the Up South Line, over-ran the signal protecting the crossover and came into sidelong...1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Collision at Newcastle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 76

Adverb

sidelong (comparative more sidelong, superlative most sidelong)

  1. Towards the side; sideways.
  2. obliquely

sidelong meaning in Hindi, Bengali and Malayalam

sidelong in Hindi

sidelong, oblique
तिरछा tirchā

sidelong in Bengali

আড়চোখে, একপাশে হেলানো

sidelong in Malayalam

oblique, indirect, sideways
പാർശ്വഭാഗത്തുള്ള, തിരശ്ചീനമായ, ചാഞ്ഞ, ചരിഞ്ഞ, പരോക്ഷ, പ്രച്ഛന്ന
indirectly, obliquely, sideways
ചാഞ്ഞ്, ചരിഞ്ഞ്, ചരിവായി, ഒരുവശം ഉയർന്നും ഒരുവശം താഴ്ന്നും, പാർശ്വസ്ഥമായി, നെടുകെ

Synonyms of sidelong

Forms of sidelong

comparativemore sidelong
superlativemost sidelong

Origin of sidelong

1520s, from Middle English sidlyng (early 14th century), from side + -lyng (“(frequentative)”) (modern English -le (“(frequentative)”)). Reanalyzed as side + long.

Questions about sidelong

What does sidelong mean?
Sidelong means directed to the side; sideways.
What is sidelong in Hindi?
Sidelong in Hindi is तिरछा (tirchā). See Sidelong meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sidelong?
Sidelong can be an adjective or an adverb.
How do you pronounce sidelong?
Sidelong is pronounced /ˈsaɪd.lɑŋ/ (US).

Words near sidelong in the dictionary

  1. sideloads
  2. sidelobe
  3. sidelobes
  4. sidelock
  5. sidelocks
  6. sidelong
  7. sidelot
  8. sidelots
  9. sidely
  10. sideman
  11. sidemeat

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sidelong (page history and authors); तिरछा (Hindi) (page history and authors); sidelong (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sidelong (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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