What is another word for downhill?
Synonyms for downhill
ˈdaʊnˈhɪl; ˈdaʊnˌhɪldown·hill
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downhillnoun
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uphilldownhillnoun
located down a slope or hill
Because we got to the summit of the mountain, we could only go downhill from there
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uphilldownhilladjective
going down a slope or a hill
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uphilldownhilladjective
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uphilldownhilladjective
After Don made those tasteless remarks, our relationship with him went downhill.
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uphill
Princeton's WordNet
downhillnoun
the downward slope of a hill
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ascending(a)downhilladjective
a ski race down a trail
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ascending(a)declivitous, downhill, downward-slopingadverb
sloping down rather steeply
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downward-sloping, declivitousAntonyms:
ascending(a)downhilladverb
toward a lower or inferior state
"your performance has been going downhill for a long time now"
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ascending(a)downhilladverb
toward the bottom of a hill
"running downhill, he gained a lot of speed"
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ascending(a)
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How to use downhill in a sentence?
Oh gosh… He was trying to find a new way [to find fame] and he was young and young people make mistakes. I think at that point, he was going downhill quickly. I felt badly for him. I still feel badly for him.
[ They ] immediately put her on a ventilator and from there she just went downhill, by that evening, she was on life support.
My hunch on the Ditka quote is that it comes from a quirk of the King James translation, ancient Hebrew had a particular way of saying things like, 'and the next thing that happened was...' The King James translators of the Old Testament consistently rendered this as 'and it came to pass.' ''When phantom Bible passages turn dangerousPeople may get verses wrong, but they also mangle plenty of well-known biblical stories as well.Two examples: The scripture never says a whale swallowed Jonah, the Old Testament prophet, nor did any New Testament passages say that three wise men visited baby Jesus, scholars say.Those details may seem minor, but scholars say one popular phantom Bible story stands above the rest: The Genesis story about the fall of humanity.Most people know the popular version - Satan in the guise of a serpent tempts Eve to pick the forbidden apple from the Tree of Life. It's been downhill ever since.But the story in the book of Genesis never places Satan in the Garden of Eden.
I hit the ground in the parking lot. And it was downhill from there, it was just' I'm so sorry.' It was such a gut punch.
It's an optical illusion on the second shot, it's uphill, but it looks downhill. It plays a fraction longer than you want it to. The stance you have wants you to hit a draw. But if you miss a shot with the ball above your feet, it's often to the right. And that's where all the trouble is.
Translations for downhill
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- спускане, долен, нанадолен, надолуBulgarian
- bergab, AbfahrtGerman
- prueba de descenso, descensoSpanish
- kiirlaskumineEstonian
- alamäki, syöksylasku, alhaalla, alasFinnish
- descenteFrench
- in discesa, discesa liberaItalian
- afdalingDutch
- i en skråning, kjøre utfor, utforNorwegian
- вниз, гора, спускатьсяRussian
- nizbrdoSerbo-Croatian
- störtloppSwedish
- சரிவில்Tamil
- 下坡Chinese
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