ANGLE Synonyms: 130 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈaŋ-gəl

Definition of angle

as in side

a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded from this angle, that car looks gray, not brown

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Relevance

as in perspective

a way of looking at or thinking about something what's your angle on the problem?

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as in curvature

something that curves or is curved the road around the peninsula is all angles and hairpin turns

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angle

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verb

as in to slope

to set or cause to be at an angle angle the camera this way and the Leaning Tower of Pisa will look straight

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Recent Examples of angle

Noun

Microsoft’s MatterGen is doing the same work from a different angle. — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 Because the walls and buildings of Loudun would have felt new in 1634, the sets of The Devils are big, bright, clean, and sleek with sharp angles and impeccable brickwork. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026

Verb

On Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia, before a panel of judges and a crowd of hundreds, 14 residents took turns angling into tight spaces in the city’s first parallel parking championship. — New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026 Those traveling in a single lane or an outside lane, with a white stripe on the white side, can angle their car slightly, away from oncoming traffic, to hit the butt of the animal. — Celia Frazier, Denver Post, 2 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for angle

Recent Examples of Synonyms for angle

Noun

Google cofounder Sergey Brin, who moved to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe and also bought a Miami home, and venture capitalist Peter Thiel also left California for Miami ahead of the Prop 40 cutoff.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
The initial configuration already included the trailer side skirts and wheel covers.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of side

Noun

By tonight, the Moon enters Aquarius and your perspective gets much wider.

— Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026
From this perspective, if Nick Richards is guaranteed for the season, there seemingly would be less need to have Vlad Goldin available for emergency use.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of perspective

Noun

Individual fibers can detect curvature along a line, but reconstructing an entire surface presents a greater challenge.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
Mike recalled that the effects of the disease were noticeable around the time of his 2011 wedding to Zara, and said his father’s physical decline had included curvature of the spine and subsequent medical problems.

— Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of curvature

Verb

Any normal mattress would’ve been an improvement over our current one, a sub-$300 queen-size nightmare of sloping sides and too-springy springs.

— Jaklin Romine Oct. 15, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
The brush was flattened and rivulets of water ran back toward the sound, which was now miraculously some 100 yards away down a sloping bank.

— Gerald R. Hunter, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of slope

Noun

Superposition is an uncanny aspect of quantum mechanics that allows particles to be in multiple states at once—such as literally here and there simultaneously.

— Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
The pushing and lifting capabilities represent two distinct aspects of its manipulation performance.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of aspect

Noun

Solving a memory problem One particularly notable result concerns modular inversion, a mathematical operation used in elliptic-curve arithmetic.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
Sakurai is already ahead of the curve by leaning into the material’s brainless escapism.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of curve

Verb

Technological dominance has been tilting toward Moscow of late, exposing Ukraine’s vulnerability to Russia’s relentlessly modernizing war machine.

— Gerard Toal, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
But even those examples fall far short of the sort of figures that would tilt the scales in any outcomes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026

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