sloping

comparative more sloping · superlative most sloping

1. Having a slope.

   a sloping roof

   1 more example

   The beefarm on her sloping meadows, the sweet / Exacting spaces spinning honey; / Under the elms and the sycamores / The light leaves cherish many flowers, / The light air under the boughs threaded / With the vivid bees who return

   1993, Peter Redgrove, “The Mountain”, in The Laborators, Taxus Press, →ISBN, page 27

   Synonyms: declivitous, gradient

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of slope
2. syntactically adverbialin a sloping manner

   the road cut through the fields sloping

plural slopings

1. An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.