vertical

• vertic (poetical)

Borrowed from Middle French vertical, from Late Latin verticālis.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɜː.tɪ.kəl/
• (US) enPR: vûr'tĭkəl, IPA^(key): /ˈvɝ.tɪ.kəl/, /ˈvɝ.tə.kəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪkəl

vertical (comparative more vertical, superlative most vertical)

1. Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.

   Synonyms: sheer, up-and-down

   vertical lines

   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 72:

     The Zebra moray is chocolate black with vertical white stripes.

2. In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x.
3. In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy.
4. (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
5. (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
6. (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.

   Synonym: harmonic

   Antonym: horizontal

• horizontal

vertical (plural verticals)

1. A vertex or zenith.
2. A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
3. An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
4. A vertical component of a structure.
5. (marketing) A vertical market.

   We offer specialised accounting software targeting various verticals.

   • 2010 July 5, Joseph Tartakoff, “What search verticals will Google target next?”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     As Barclay Capital's Douglas Anmuth wrote in a report on Friday morning, Google's "core search growth" is slowing, so there may now be a "greater urgency in pursuing specific verticals". So, what other specialised areas could Google target?

6. (politics) A command structure for exertion of political power.
   • 2024 August 19, Christina Harward, Nicole Wolkov, Grace Mappes, Davit Gasparyan, Karolina Hird, George Barros, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 19, 2024”, in Ukraine Project, The Institute for the Study of War:

     Russian opposition outlet Vazhnye Istorii reported on August 19 that Russian President Vladimir Putin's reaction to the "Kursk situation" has exposed certain shifts within the Kremlin's power vertical, many of which have been underway over the last several months ... Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov noted that the FSB has generally shifted its mandate away from controlling Russian oligarchs and towards controlling Russia’s military and Russia’s military-industrial complex as well as countering "saboteurs and terrorists," and Vazhnye Istorii reported that several long-time Russian economic oligarchs are also gradually losing their influence within the Kremlin's wider power vertical ... ISW has reported at length on Putin's efforts to maintain a core cadre of loyal siloviki (Russian strongmen with political influence) within the Russian power vertical, particularly since the risks to Putin's regime first introduced by the Wagner Group's armed rebellion in June 2023.

• “vertical”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

From Late Latin verticālis.

• IPA^(key): /beɾtiˈkal/ [beɾ.t̪iˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ver‧ti‧cal

vertical (epicene, plural verticales)

1. vertical

   Synonym: horizontal

• “vertical”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

Borrowed from Late Latin verticālis.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bər.tiˈkal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vər.tiˈkal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [veɾ.tiˈkal]

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• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: ver‧ti‧cal

vertical m or f (masculine and feminine plural verticals)

1. vertical

   Antonym: horitzontal

• verticalment

Learned borrowing from Late Latin verticālis.

• IPA^(key): /vɛʁ.ti.kal/

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• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: ver‧ti‧cal
• Homophones: verticale, verticales

vertical (feminine verticale, masculine plural verticaux, feminine plural verticales)

1. vertical

   Coordinate term: horizontal

   barre verticale ― vertical bar

• verticalement
• verticalité

• “vertical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Late Latin verticālis.

• IPA^(key): /beɾtiˈkal/ [beɾ.t̪iˈkɑɫ]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: ver‧ti‧cal

vertical m or f (plural verticais)

1. vertical

   Antonym: horizontal

• verticalmente

From Late Latin verticālis.

vertical m (feminine singular verticala, masculine plural verticai, feminine plural verticales)

1. vertical

From Late Latin verticālis.

• IPA^(key): /vɛrtiˈkal/

vertical

1. vertical

From Late Latin verticālis.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: ver‧ti‧cal

vertical m or f (plural verticais, not comparable)

1. vertical

   Antonym: horizontal

• verticalmente

• “vertical”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “vertical”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• вертикал (vertical) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Borrowed from French vertical.

• IPA^(key): /vertiˈkal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: ver‧ti‧cal

vertical m or n (feminine singular verticală, masculine plural verticali, feminine/neuter plural verticale)

1. vertical

• verticalitate

Borrowed from Late Latin verticālis.

• IPA^(key): /beɾtiˈkal/ [beɾ.t̪iˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ver‧ti‧cal

vertical m or f (masculine and feminine plural verticales)

1. vertical
2. portrait (a print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.; in smartphones)

vertical f (plural verticales)

1. handstand

• horizontal

• “vertical”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025