Synonyms for Uphill | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "uphill" (188 found)

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Closest matches (38)

abruptness abstruse acclinate acclivitous acclivity anabasis anabatic arduous ascendant ascending ascension ascensional ascensive ascent aslant aslantwise aslopeat a slantatilt backbreaking

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brutal burdensome clamber climb climbing complex critical crushing delicate demanding difficile difficult

Adjective(6 words)

acclivitous arduous ascent challenge difficult difficulty

Strong matches (56)

downgrade downhill effortful elevation escalade exacting forced formidable fountain grueling gushgyring uphairy hardhard earnedhard foughthard-earned hard-fought heavenward heavy

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hefty herculeanin the ascendantincrease intricate jawbreaking jet jump killing knotted knotty labored laborious leap leaping levitation mean mount mountingno picnicnot easyoff plumbonerous operose oppressive painful precipitousness punishing rakingly rampant rearing rigorous

Adjective(4 words)

gradient hard incline inclined

Related words (94)

rise risingrising groundrocketing uprough rugged saltation saltatory scandent scansorialset with thornssevereshooting upskyrocketing skyward slantingly slantways slantwise slaunchways slopeways

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Adjective(9 words)

rising slope sloped strenuous taxing tilted toilsomely upward upwardly

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

15 entries

acclivity ascent challenge climb difficultydirectional adverbgradient landformmanner adverbphase of workraise rise slopeterrain featureupgrade

More specific

14 entries

arduous taskbottleneckgentle inclinehard phaselaborious processlaboriouslylong grademajor obstaclesteep slopetoilsomelytough assignmentuphill gradeuphill slopeupslope

Collocations

11 entries

drive uphillgo uphillhike uphilluphill battleuphill climbuphill gradeuphill pathuphill slopeuphill stretchuphill terrainwalk uphill

Inflections

3 entries

more uphillmost uphilluphills

Derivations

1 entries

uphillness

similar

1 entries

ascending

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

After an uphill struggle against great odds they finally got the company on its feet again.

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This is an uphill road.

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Greenpeace is fighting an uphill battle to save the environment.

Source: tatoeba (62854)

Our car pulled uphill.

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Uphill