Uphill

4 definitions found

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

  Uphill \Up*hill"\, adv.
     Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Uphill \Up"hill`\, a.
     1. Ascending; going up; as, an uphill road.
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     2. Attended with labor; difficult; as, uphill work.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  uphill
       adj 1: sloping upward [syn: {acclivitous}, {rising}]
       2: hard to overcome or surmount; "a stiff hike"; "a stiff
          exam"; "an uphill battle against a popular incumbant"
          [syn: {stiff}]
       n : the upward slope of a hill
       adv 1: against difficulties; "she was talking uphill"
       2: upward on a hill or incline; "this street lay uphill"

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

  166 Moby Thesaurus words for "uphill":
     Herculean, abruptness, abstruse, acclinate, acclivitous, acclivity,
     anabasis, anabatic, arduous, ascendant, ascending, ascension,
     ascensional, ascensive, ascent, aslant, aslantwise, aslope,
     at a slant, atilt, backbreaking, brutal, burdensome, clamber,
     climb, climbing, complex, critical, crushing, delicate, demanding,
     difficile, difficult, downgrade, downhill, effortful, elevation,
     escalade, exacting, forced, formidable, fountain, grueling, gush,
     gyring up, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavenward,
     heavy, hefty, in the ascendant, increase, intricate, jawbreaking,
     jet, jump, killing, knotted, knotty, labored, laborious, leap,
     leaping, levitation, mean, mount, mounting, no picnic, not easy,
     off plumb, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, precipitousness,
     punishing, rakingly, rampant, rearing, rigorous, rise, rising,
     rising ground, rocketing up, rough, rugged, saltation, saltatory,
     scandent, scansorial, set with thorns, severe, shooting up,
     skyrocketing, skyward, slantingly, slantways, slantwise,
     slaunchways, slopeways, slopingly, soaring, spiny, spiraling,
     spout, spring, springing, spurt, steep, steepness, strained,
     strenuous, surge, takeoff, taking off, thorny, ticklish, tipsily,
     toilsome, tough, tricky, troublesome, up, up attic, up north,
     up steps, upalong, uparching, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang,
     upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphillward, upleap, uplift,
     uplong, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot,
     upslope, upsloping, upstairs, upstream, upstreamward, upsurge,
     upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, uptown, upward, upwards, upwith,
     vault, verticalness, wearisome, wicked, zooming