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?

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

    deBergab geht gewöhnlich schneller als bergauf. — Waldelfe

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

  4. Things just kept going downhill from there.

    ruС тех пор дела становились всё хуже. — whatnot

  5. Water flows downhill.

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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