Diagonal and Parallel

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Diagonal adjective - Running in a slanting direction.

Usage example: the diagonal design ran up the wall all the way from the lower left to the upper right-hand corner

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Parallel is an antonym for diagonal.

Nearby Word: diagonally

Parallel adjective - Being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting.

Usage example: parallel lines never converge

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Diagonal is an antonym for parallel.

Nearby Words: parallelize, parallelism, paralleled, paralleling, parallelise

They will move down slowly until parallel with you, and then lunge at an upward diagonal.

Source: Demonic Spiders / Platformers

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