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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the downward slope of a hill;

2. a ski race down a trail;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. sloping down rather steeply;
[syn: declivitous, downhill, downward-sloping]


ADVERB (2)

1. toward a lower or inferior state;
- Example: "your performance has been going downhill for a long time now"

2. toward the bottom of a hill;
- Example: "running downhill, he gained a lot of speed"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Downhill \Down"hill`\, adv. Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Downhill \Down"hill`\, a. Declivous; descending; sloping. "A downhill greensward." --Congrewe. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Downhill \Down"hill`\, n. Declivity; descent; slope. [1913 Webster] On th' icy downhills of this slippery life. --Du Bartas (Trans. ). [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

downhill adv 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" adj 1: sloping down rather steeply [syn: declivitous, downhill, downward-sloping] n 1: the downward slope of a hill 2: a ski race down a trail
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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