Complexion vs Slant - What's the difference?
complexion | slant | Synonyms |
The combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry.
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*:Ne ever is he wont on ought to feed / But todes and frogs, his pasture poysonous, / Which in his cold complexion doe breed / A filthy blood.
The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
(lb) The outward appearance of something.
Outlook, attitude, or point of view.
*1844 ,
*:But the purely marginal jottings, done with no eye to the Memorandum Book, have a distinct complexion , and not only a distinct purpose, but none at all; this it is which imparts to them a value.
A slope or incline.
A bias, tendency, or leaning; a perspective or angle.
(pejorative, ethnic slur) A person of East Asian descent, supposed to have slanting eyes.
(obsolete) An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark.
To lean, tilt or incline.
* Dodsley
To bias or skew.
Complexion is a synonym of slant.
As nouns the difference between complexion and slant
is that complexion is physical constitution while slant is a slope or incline.As a verb slant is
to lean, tilt or incline.complexion
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* *slant
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Noun
(en noun)- The house was built on a bit of a slant and was never quite level.
- It was a well written article, but it had a bit of a leftist slant .
Verb
(en verb)- If you slant the track a little more, the marble will roll down it faster.
- On the side of yonder slanting hill.
- The group tends to slant its policies in favor of the big businesses it serves.