Inclining Synonyms and Antonyms

To tend toward
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. preferring
To have an impact on in a certain way
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. swaying
  2. influencing
  3. disposing
Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. tending
  2. running
  3. bending
  4. trending
  5. leaning
  6. squinting
  7. slanting
Antonyms:
  1. indisposing
To cause to lean, slant, or slope:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slanting
The act of inclining; bending forward
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. inclination
  2. tendent

Words Related to Inclining

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Inclining Sentence Examples

  • Mr Stuart, in 1862, made his third and final attempt to traverse the continent from Adelaide along a central line, which, inclining a little westward, reaches the north coast of Arnheim Land, opposite Melville Island.

  • Narcondam, Barren Island and the Invisible Bank, a great danger of these seas, are in a line almost parallel to the Andamans inclining towards them from north to south.

  • In the centre of the Mediterranean the fight between Christian and Mahommedan had been long, but was finally inclining in favour of the Christian.

  • The general colour of the upper parts and sides of the adult is a tawny yellowish brown, sometimes having a grey or silvery shade, but in some cases dark or inclining to red; and upon these and other differences, which are probably constant locally, a number of sub-species have been named.

  • The tfngan horse usually stands about thirteen hands high, is short-bodied, clean-limbed, deep in the chest and extremely active, his colour usually inclining to piebald.

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