Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lateral_thinking

1 sense of lateral thinking

Sense 1
lateral thinking -- (a heuristic for solving problems; you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on)
       => heuristic, heuristic rule, heuristic program -- (a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem)