sideways

3 definitions • 4 examples

in a direction to the left or right, not forwards or backwards:

The fence is leaning sideways.

If you would move sideways to the left, I can get everyone in the picture.

from one side to another, or with a side to the front:

If you’d move sideways I could see better.

Turn the table sideways.

If you look at something sideways, you do not look at it directly.