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uphill

adv
/ʌpˈhɪl//ˈʌphɪl/

Etymology

From up + hill.

  1. inherited from *hulliz✻ — “hill”
  2. inherited from *hulli✻ — “hill”
  3. inherited from hyll — “hill”
  4. inherited from hil — “hill”
  5. compounded as uphill — “up + hill”

Definitions

  1. Up a slope, towards higher ground.

  2. With difficulty.

  3. Located up a slope or on a hill.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. 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.

    2. Difficult 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.

    3. An uphill route.

    4. To travel uphill.

    5. A suburban village in Weston-super-Mare parish, North Somerset district, Somerset,…

      A suburban village in Weston-super-Mare parish, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3158).

    6. A community in Dalton Township, Ontario, Canada.

    7. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

push shit uphill, push string uphill, push water uphill, uphill battle, uphill climb, uphill gardener

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for uphill. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA