Synonyms for horizontal
ˌhɔr əˈzɒn tl, ˌhɒr-hor·i·zon·tal

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1. horizontalnoun

   Antonyms:
   vertical

2. horizontaladjective

   perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.

   Antonyms:
   vertical

3. horizontaladjective

   Antonyms:
   vertical

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1. horizontal

   Horizontal signifies in the direction of or parallel to the horizon. For practical purposes level and horizontal are identical, tho level, as the more popular word, is more loosely used of that which has no especially noticeable elevations or inequalities; as, a level road. Flat, according to its derivation from the Anglo-Saxon flet, a floor, applies to a surface only, and, in the first and most usual sense, to a surface that is horizontal or level in all directions; a line may be level, a floor is flat; flat is also applied in a derived sense to any plane surface without irregularities or elevations, as a picture may be painted on the flat surface of a perpendicular wall. Plane applies only to a surface, and is used with more mathematical exactness than flat. The adjective plain, originally the same word as plane, is now rarely used except in the figurative senses, but the original sense appears in the noun, as we speak of "a wide plain." We speak of a horizontal line, a flat morass, a level road, a plain country, a plane surface (especially in the scientific sense). That which is level may not be even, and that which is even may not be level; a level road may be very rough; a slope may be even.

   Synonyms:
   even, flat, level, plain, plane

   Antonyms:
   broken, hilly, inclined, irregular, rolling, rough, rugged, slanting, sloping, uneven

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1. horizontaladjective

   something that is oriented horizontally

   Antonyms:
   plumb, diagonal, skew, pitched, low-pitched, aslant, unsloped, high-pitched, perpendicular, canted, sloped, slanting, sloping, upright, monoclinal, skewed, sidelong, tipped, upended, salient(ip), inclined, leaning, vertical, tilted, aslope, slanted, atilt

2. horizontaladjective

   parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line

   "a horizontal surface"

   Antonyms:
   tilted, diagonal, high-pitched, monoclinal, slanted, upended, low-pitched, skew, atilt, skewed, plumb, perpendicular, sloping, sidelong, vertical, aslope, upright, salient(ip), pitched, inclined, unsloped, slanting, aslant, canted, leaning, sloped, tipped

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1. horizontaladjective

   Synonyms:
   level, parallel to the horizon

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1. List of paraphrases for "horizontal":

   horizontally, landscape, transverse, cross-cutting, transversal, lateral, cross-sectional, kink

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1. James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002:

   We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things…[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

2. Kyriakos Mitsotakis:

   I no longer want to talk about climate change. I want to talk about the climate crisis, it’s already here, and in order to address it, we need horizontal policies which essentially permeate every aspect of our economic and our social life.

3. Ashwin Vasavada:

   The bulk of Mount Sharp is kind of a horizontal layer cake that built up over time.

4. Mark Clawson:

   Most of them( lava bombs) arc high in the air, but every now and again there's one that gets shot like a rifle, more horizontal and that's what happened here.

5. James Carroll:

   We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.