uphill

comparative further uphill · comparative farther uphill · superlative furthest uphill · superlative farthest uphill

1. Up a slope, towards higher ground.
2. broadlyWith difficulty.

comparative further uphill · comparative farther uphill · superlative furthest uphill · superlative farthest uphill

1. Located up a slope or on a hill.

   Antonyms: downhill

2. Going up a slope or a hill.

   “There’s a lot of uphill about a bicycle tour,” said he, “and the wind is against you.” “So there is downhill, and the wind behind you,” said Harris.

   1900, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel

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   The engine seemed a little sensitive to wet rails, and in consequence the uphill work was not so good north of Dundee as it had been earlier. But I have noted this same "touchiness" on the part of the "A4s", and other modern British 4-6-2s, so that in this respect No. 2006 proved no exception.

   1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9

   Antonyms: downhill

3. broadlyDifficult or laborious.

   For a large part of this game, England once again looked like a team suffering from the rigours of a long season and faced an uphill task when Hofmann put Germany in front.

   2022 June 7, Phil McNulty, “Germany 1-1- England”, in BBC Sport

plural uphills

1. An uphill route.

present singular third person uphills · participle present uphilling · participle past uphilled · past uphilled

1. hobbiesTo travel uphill.

1. A suburban village in Weston-super-Mare parish, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3158).
2. A community in Dalton Township, Ontario, Canada.
3. A surname.