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[syn: declivitous, downhill, downward-sloping]
ADVERB (2)
1. toward a lower or inferior state;
- Example: "your performance has been going downhill for a long time now"
2. toward the bottom of a hill;
- Example: "running downhill, he gained a lot of speed"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Downhill \Down"hill`\, adv.
Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Downhill \Down"hill`\, a.
Declivous; descending; sloping. "A downhill greensward."
--Congrewe.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Downhill \Down"hill`\, n.
Declivity; descent; slope.
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On th' icy downhills of this slippery life. --Du Bartas
(Trans. ).
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
downhill
adv 1: toward a lower or inferior state; "your performance has
been going downhill for a long time now"
2: toward the bottom of a hill; "running downhill, he gained a
lot of speed"
adj 1: sloping down rather steeply [syn: declivitous,
downhill, downward-sloping]
n 1: the downward slope of a hill
2: a ski race down a trail
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "downhill":
adown, aslant, aslantwise, aslope, at a slant, atilt, below,
collapsing, deciduous, decline, declined, declining, declivate,
declivitous, declivity, declivous, decurrent, descendant,
descending, descent, dip, dipping, down, down south, down-reaching,
downcoming, downfalling, downgate, downgoing, downgrade, downline,
downright, downsinking, downstairs, downstream, downstreet,
downtown, downward, downwards, downwith, drooping, drop, dropping,
fall, falling, falling-off, hang, hanging, off plumb,
on the descendant, on the downgrade, plummeting, plunging,
rakingly, sagging, setting, sinking, slantingly, slantways,
slantwise, slaunchways, slopeways, slopingly, submerging,
subsiding, tipsily, tottering, tumbledown, upgrade, uphill