From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Downhill \Down"hill'\, adverb Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Downhill \Down"hill'\, adjective Declivous; descending; sloping. ''A downhill greensward.'' --Congrewe.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Downhill \Down"hill'\, noun Declivity; descent; slope.
On th' icy downhills of this slippery life. --Du Bartas (Trans. ).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: sloping down rather steeply [syn: {declivitous}, {downward-sloping}]
noun
1: the downward slope of a hill
adverb
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
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