Antonyms for lateral
ˈlæt ər əllat·er·al

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1. lateraladjective

   Antonyms:
   medial

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1. lateral

   Antonyms:
   lineal, direct, primary, immediate

   Synonyms:
   indirect, oblique, secondary, resultant, collateral, deviative, additive, parallel, adjunctive, incidental

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1. lateral pass, lateraladjective

   a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer

   Antonyms:
   top(a), mesial, bottom(a)

   Synonyms:
   lateral pass

2. lateral, sidelongadjective

   situated at or extending to the side

   "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson

   Antonyms:
   top(a), mesial, bottom(a)

   Synonyms:
   askant, sidelong, squinty, squint, squint-eyed, askance, asquint

3. lateraladjective

   lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body

   "lateral lemniscus"

   Antonyms:
   top(a), bottom(a), mesial

   Synonyms:
   sidelong

How to use lateral in a sentence?

1. Steve Scheckel:

   We've been seeing more and more Chicago police officers when we do an emergency hire, which is basically a lateral transfer. They already have the academy.

2. Nick Hague:

   When the parachute opens, it's five to six Gs of lateral side to side of swinging back and forth, before the chutes open, we're trying to collect loose items in capsule so they don't become projectiles.

3. Angelo Meda:

   I would expect a lateral, flat market from now through the summer with some rotation, cyclicals have been the best year to date so I would expect some recovery from the staples.

4. Mimi Lamantia:

   Even [with] just five weeks of Argentine tango we were able to decrease that medial and lateral sway by 56 percent.

5. New Zealand-based volcanologist Shane Cronin:

   This is an eruption best witnessed from space, the large and explosive lateral spread of the eruption suggests that it was probably the biggest one since about the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.

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