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Acclivous

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Rising, as the slope of a hill: the opposite of declivous.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. sloping upward; rising as a hillside.
  • Word Usage
    "The eastern part of this valley is hilly, and rapidly acclivous towards the Appalachian mountains."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    declivous