'Uphill' definitions:
Definition of 'uphill'
(from WordNet)
adverb
Against difficulties; "she was talking uphill"
adverb
Upward on a hill or incline; "this street lay uphill"
adjective
Sloping upward [syn: acclivitous, rising, uphill]
noun
The upward slope of a hill
Definition of 'Uphill'
From: GCIDE
- Uphill \Up*hill"\, adv. Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Uphill'
From: GCIDE
- Uphill \Up"hill`\, a.
- 1. Ascending; going up; as, an uphill road. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Attended with labor; difficult; as, uphill work. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'uphill'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Herculean,
- 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