downhill

from 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
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Downhill \Down"hill`\, n.
   Declivity; descent; slope.
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         On th' icy downhills of this slippery life. --Du Bartas
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Downhill \Down"hill`\, adv.
   Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Downhill \Down"hill`\, a.
   Declivous; descending; sloping. "A downhill greensward."
   --Congrewe.
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from 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

    

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