Downhill

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Downhill \Down"hill`\, n.
     Declivity; descent; slope.
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           On th' icy downhills of this slippery life. --Du Bartas
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Downhill \Down"hill`\, adv.
     Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Downhill \Down"hill`\, a.
     Declivous; descending; sloping. "A downhill greensward."
     --Congrewe.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  downhill
       adj : sloping down rather steeply [syn: {declivitous}, {downward-sloping}]
       n 1: the downward slope of a hill
       2: a ski race down a trail
       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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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