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Downhill

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

ad. Down the slope of a hill.

ad. Toward a lower or worse condition: The alcoholic's health went downhill fast.

adj. Sloping downward; descending.

adj. Sports Of, relating to, or constituting skiing down a slope: a downhill racer.

n. A downhill skiing race.

n. A downward gradient; a descending slope.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

ad. Down a slope

adj. located down a slope or hill

adj. going down a slope or a hill

adj. easy

adj. deteriorating, getting worse

n. The fastest of the disciplines of alpine skiing

n. A rapid descent of a hill in related sports, especially in alpine skiing

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

ad. Towards the bottom of a hill.

adj. Declivous; descending; sloping.

n. Declivity; descent; slope.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Sloping downward; descending; declining.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

ad. toward a lower or inferior state

n. a ski race down a trail

ad. toward the bottom of a hill

adj. sloping down rather steeply

n. the downward slope of a hill

Word Usage

"Triple 2010 Olympic medalist Miller missed the World Cup finals with an ankle injury and finished 20th overall, 17th in downhill, 18th in super-G and fifth in super-combined."

Equivalent

descending

Antonym

uphill

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

ski race skiing race decline fall descent

Form

go downhill

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

declivous descending sloping declivity descent

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Bastille Belleville Bill Brazil Brill

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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