Uphill

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  • adjective. Located on high or higher ground.
  • adjective. Going up a hill or slope.
  • adjective. Marked by difficulty or strong resistance; laborious.
  • adverb. To or toward higher ground; up a slope.
  • adverb. Against adversity; with difficulty.
  • noun. An upward slope or incline.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Upward; up, or as if up, an ascent: as, to walk uphill.
  • Leading or going up a rising ground; sloping upward: as, an uphill road.
  • Attended with labor, fatigue, or exertion; difficult; severe; fatiguing; burdensome: as, uphill work; hence, not having free course; hampered: as, an uphill acquaintance.
  • noun. Rising ground; ascent; upward slope.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adverb. Upwards on, or as on, a hillside.
  • adjective. Ascending; going up.
  • adjective. Attended with labor; difficult.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adverb. up a slope, towards higher ground
  • adverb. with difficulty
  • adjective. located up a slope or on a hill
  • adjective. going up a slope or a hill
  • adjective. difficult or laborious
  • noun. An uphill route.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the upward slope of a hill
  • adverb. against difficulties
  • adverb. upward on a hill or incline
  • adjective. sloping upward
  • Word Usage
    "And for those of you all who don't ski, the term uphill skier means Scott, as you kind of heard explained there, Scott was the guy behind the other man as they both came down that ski trail."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    downhill  
    Equivalent
    ascending  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    acclivity  ascent  climb  raise  rise  
    Rhyme
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    Bastille  Belleville  Bill  Brazil  Brill  
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