Meaning

4 senses
  1. Located towards or at the bottom of a slope or hill.

    Moraines are found at the downhill end of a glacier.

  2. Going down a slope or a hill.

    This year's race is on a downhill course.

    спуска́ющийсяspuskájuščijsja

  3. (broadly)Easy.

    That's the hard part of the job done. From now on it's downhill all the way.

  4. Characterized by a style of running with a low center of gravity.

    He's a downhill runner.

More definitions
  • sloping down rather steeply

Examples

48 sentences
  1. How could things have gone downhill so fast?

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  2. It's usually faster to walk downhill than uphill.

    deBergab geht gewöhnlich schneller als bergauf.

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  3. I like downhill skiing better than cross-country skiing.

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  4. Things just kept going downhill from there.

    ruС тех пор дела становились всё хуже.

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  5. Water flows downhill.

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Translations

1 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
going down a slope:

Origin

From down- + hill.

From down- + hill.

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Forms

further downhill/farther downhill, furthest downhill/farthest downhill

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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