Synonyms of the word uphill


UPHILLACCLIVITOUS - ACCLIVITY - ASCENDING - ASCENT - CLIMB - RAISE - RISE - RISING - UPGRADE

uphill

  • adv. Up a slope, towards higher ground.
  • adv. (by extension) With difficulty.
  • adj. Located up a slope or on a hill.
  • adj. Going up a slope or a hill.
  • adj. (by extension) Difficult or laborious.
  • n. An uphill route.

acclivitous

  • adj. Acclivous.

acclivity

  • n. (geomorphology) A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in…

ascending

  • v. present participle of ascend.
  • n. An ascent.

ascent

  • n. The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
  • n. The way or means by which one ascends.
  • n. An eminence, hill, or high place.
  • n. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising…
  • n. (typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
  • n. An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy.

climb

  • v. (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
  • v. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
  • v. (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
  • v. (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
  • v. (intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing.
  • v. (intransitive) to jump high.
  • v. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
  • v. (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
  • n. An act of climbing.
  • n. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
  • n. An upwards struggle.

raise

  • v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
  • v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
  • v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
  • v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
  • v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
  • v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
  • v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
  • v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
  • n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
  • n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
  • n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
  • n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
  • n. A cairn or pile of stones.

rise

  • v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
  • v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
  • v. To begin; to develop.
  • v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
  • v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
  • v. To come; to offer itself.
  • v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
  • n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
  • n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
  • n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
  • n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
  • n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
  • n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
  • n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
  • n. (informal) An angry reaction.
  • n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

rising

  • v. present participle of rise.
  • n. Rebellion.
  • n. The act of something that rises.
  • n. (US, dated) A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.
  • adj. Going up.
  • prep. (US, slang, dated) More than; exceeding; upwards of.

upgrade

  • n. An upward grade or slope.
  • n. An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology.
  • n. An improvement.
  • v. (transitive) To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more…
  • v. (transitive) To replace with something better.
  • v. (transitive) To improve the equipment or furnishings of or services rendered to.
  • v. (intransitive) To improve in condition or status.
  • v. (intransitive, computing) To replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher…
  • adv. Up a slope or grade.

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