Meaning

2 senses
  1. Down a slope.

    Because we got to the summit of the mountain, we could only go downhill from there.

    bergab

    по́д горуpód goru, внизvniz

  2. (broadly)So as to deteriorate or get worse.

    After Don made those tasteless remarks, our relationship with him went downhill.

More definitions
  • toward the bottom of a hill
  • toward a lower or inferior state

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

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
down a slope:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
down a slope:

Origin

From down- + hill.

From down- + hill.

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Forms

further downhill/farther downhill, furthest downhill/farthest downhill

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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