kitty-cornered

7.9

A place diagonally across an intersection from another place

adjective
/ˈkɪtiˌkɔrnərd/

: diagonal

If you look kitty-corner across the intersection, you'll see the library.

Examples

"And I guess you like to stand kitty-corner and watch the girls watch the soldiers?" Temple waved his arms in the air and rolled his eyes up.

Fiction book (1990)
They positioned the new bench kitty-corner to the fountain for a better view.
The coffee shop is located kitty-cornered from the park entrance.

Synonyms

diagonally

vskitty-cornered

15 3.0

Along a slanting line from one corner to another

specifies that same diagonal relation but focused on opposite position

catty-corner

vskitty-cornered

1 7.9

At an angle across the corner of a street or room

describes the same diagonal relation but in a different variant form

kitty-corner

vskitty-cornered

1 7.9

Diagonally across the street from another place

is the same meaning but given in the alternate word form

cater-cornered

vskitty-cornered

8.6

Diagonally across the street at the opposite corner from another building

expresses the same diagonal position using a different variant form

catercorner

vskitty-cornered

8.8

At the corner diagonally across from another place

means the same diagonal placement but uses another spelling variant

catacorner

vskitty-cornered

9.3

At a corner diagonally across an intersection from another place

covers the same diagonal relation but with a different word form

catty-cornered

vskitty-cornered

7.8

On the opposite corner from a place like a shop or house

names the same diagonal location with an alternate variant form

cata-cornered

vskitty-cornered

Archaic

9.1

Placed diagonally across from something at the opposite corner

expresses the same angled position using another variant spelling

Antonyms

straight

∞ 1.0

In a direct line without turning

Surface Forms

kitty-cornered positive

kitty-corner positive

Etymology

Kitty-cornered comes from an older phrase cater-corner (also heard as catty-corner), where the cater part comes from an old word for 'four'. Imagine a square with four corners — things on the opposite corner are 'diagonally across', so kitty-cornered means 'diagonally across'.