downhill

Speech parts

1. downhill - Noun

2. downhill - Adjective

3. downhill - Verb

4. downhill - Adverb

6. downhill - Adjective Satellite

7. Downhill - Proper noun

Meaning

Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.

Declivous; descending; sloping.

Declivity; descent; slope.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

declivitous downward-sloping royal hill down under fall nether easy drop decline falling descent slope downward

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Antonyms

uphill complex difficult powerful complicated demanding

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Hypernyms

fall decline descent declination declivity declension

Phrases with the word

downhill run it's all downhill from here gone downhill downhill movement ski downhill

Examples

running downhill, he gained a lot of speed Source: Internet

your performance has been going downhill for a long time now Source: Internet

Another practical use is utilizing gravitational potential energy to descend (perhaps coast) downhill in transportation such as the descent of an automobile, truck, railroad train, bicycle, airplane, or fluid in a pipeline. Source: Internet

Alexander 2006, p. 22. Caldwell added that the P-40 was "faster downhill than almost any other aeroplane with a propeller." Source: Internet

Another study mining the same volume counted Anglo-American proverbs about religion to show that proverbs indicate attitudes toward religion are going downhill. Source: Internet

Both Striedinger and Kryenbühl must have earlier thought victory was theirs, and both had taken part in a brief victory ceremony that World Cup organizers always stage after the top-30 downhill racers complete their run. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

downhearted downheartedly downheartedness downhill creep downhill ice cross downhill movement