Slanted means set at an angle rather than level or upright. A slanted roof, slanted handwriting, the light came in slanted.
It describes anything leaning off the horizontal or vertical, and slanting is the alternative participle used the same way. The figurative sense is about bias: a slanted report presents facts in a way that favours one side, and slanted coverage is a standard criticism in media discussion. Note slant as a noun, meaning both the angle and the point of view — a new slant on the story.
1adjectiveslantedSet at an angle rather than level or upright.
“The slanted ceiling makes the room feel smaller than it is.”
synonyms: sloping, angled, tilted
2adjectivepresentedPresented in a biased way.
“The coverage was slanted from the first paragraph.”
slanted is an angled position.
Proto-Germanic
*slintaną
English
slant
English, today
slanted
slant Late Middle English -, from a variant of the earlier form dialectal slent, from Old Norse - or another gmq - source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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