Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb tilt

4 senses of tilt

Sense 1
lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle -- (to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister")
       => bend, flex -- (form a curve; "The stick does not bend")

Sense 2
cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch -- (heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting")
       => move -- (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right")

Sense 3
careen, wobble, shift, tilt -- (move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control")
       => move -- (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right")

Sense 4
tilt -- (charge with a tilt)
       => joust -- (joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback)

Antonyms of adj tilted

1 sense of tilted

Sense 1
atilt, canted, leaning, tilted, tipped -- (departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted")

INDIRECT (VIA vertical, inclined) -> horizontal -- (parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a horizontal surface")
INDIRECT (VIA inclined, horizontal) -> vertical, perpendicular -- (at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a vertical camera angle"; "the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab"; "measure the perpendicular height")

Similarity of adj tilted

1 sense of tilted

Sense 1
atilt, canted, leaning, tilted, tipped -- (departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted")
       => inclined (vs. horizontal) (vs. vertical) -- (at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position; "an inclined plane")