Adjective: lateral
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more lateral |
| Superlative | most lateral |
Sample Sentences
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The medial side of the knee faces the other knee, while the outer side of the knee is lateral.
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A fish senses changes in hydrodynamic pressure with its lateral line.
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The “Euphoria” and “Grey’s Anatomy” actor announced on Thursday that he has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. [2025 April 10, Dan Heching, “Eric Dane shares that he has been diagnosed with ALS”, in CNN:]
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Instead of a promotion, I opted for a lateral move to a similar position in the marketing department.
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lateral hiring
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a lateral transfer
Adjectives inflected like lateral
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin laterālis (“belonging to the side”), from latus (“the side or flank”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). See: Latin Adjectives '
laterālis'.
Verbs referencing "lateral"
Finnish Adjectives
lateraali.