downhill
downhill is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
- 2.Declivous; descending; sloping. "A downhill greensward." Congrewe.
- 3.Declivity; descent; slope. On th' icy downhills of this slippery life. Du Bartas (Trans. ).
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acclivity
- ascent
- bank
- beach
- bend
- bevel
- bias
- cant
- crookedness
- curve
- declivity
- descent
- devexity
- dip
- distortion
- easy
- fall
- gentle
- gradient
- ground
- hill
- inclination
- intersect
- lack
- leaning
- list
- lurch
- obliquity
- parallelism
- rapid
- rise
- rising
- shelving
- slant
- slope
- slopeness
- swag
- talus
- tilt
- tower
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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