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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

across, across the grain, athwart, athwartships, awkward, bendwise, bias, biased, biaswise, bulky, catercorner, catercornered, choking, clumsy, constrictive, contrariwise, contrary, contrawise, counterproductive, crisscross, cross, cross-grained, crossing, crossway, crossways, cumbersome, diagonal, hindering, hindersome, hulking, hulky, impractical, in the way, inconvenient, inhibiting, inhibitive, interrupting, interruptive, kittycorner, oblique, obliquely, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent, occlusive, overthwart, perverse, ponderous, repressive, restrictive, sideways, sidewise, slant, stifling, strangling, suppressive, thwart, thwartly, thwartways, transversal, transverse, transversely, traverse, troublesome, unhandy, unmanageable, unwieldy

Dictionary Results for crosswise:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

crosswise
    adv 1: not in the intended manner; "things are going crosswise"
    2: transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across" [syn:
       across, crosswise, crossways]
    adj 1: lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a
           cross direction; "a crosswise street"; "the crosswise
           dimension" [ant: lengthways, lengthwise]
    2: in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Crosswise \Cross"wise`\ (-w?z`), adv.
   In the form of a cross; across; transversely. --Longfellow.
   [1913 Webster]

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