Athwart

Etymology
From a-: + thwart:.

Adverb

 * 1)  From side to side; across.
 * Above, the stars appeared to move slowly athwart.
 * We placed one log on the ground, and another athwart, forming a crude cross.
 * 1)  Across the path (of something).

Preposition
athwart


 * 1)  From one side to the other side of.
 * The stars moved slowly athwart the sky.
 * 1) *1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
 * Knit with a golden bauldricke, which forelay / Athwart her snowy brest, and did diuide / Her daintie paps [...].
 * 1)  Across the line of a ship's course or across its deck.
 * The damaged mainmast fell athwart the deck, destroying the ship's boat.
 * 1)  Across the path or course of; opposing.
 * 2) *1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 283:
 * It is the voice of human experience within us, judging and condemning all gods that stand athwart the pathway along which it feels itself to be advancing.

Quotations

 * 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
 * But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
 * Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !

Derived terms

 * athwartships

Thesaurus
across; across the grain; adverse to; against; against the grain; against the tide; against the wind; at cross-purposes; at cross-purposes with; at daggers; at daggers drawn; at issue; at odds; at variance; at war with; athwartships; bendwise; beyond; bias; biased; biaswise; catercorner; catercornered; con; contra; contrariwise; contrawise; counter; counter to; crisscross; cross; cross-grained; crossway; crossways; crosswise; dead against; diagonal; eyeball-to-eyeball; in conflict with; in confrontation; in hostile array; in opposition; in opposition to; kittycorner; oblique; obliquely; opposed to; over; overthwart; sideways; sidewise; slant; thwart; thwartly; thwartways; transversal; transverse; transversely; traverse; up in arms; versus; vis-a-vis; with crossed bayonets

Adverb

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Preposition

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 * Russian: наперекор