Uphill

Definition: Uphill

Uphill

Adjective

1. Sloping upward.

2. Hard to overcome or surmount; "a stiff hike"; "a stiff exam"; "an uphill battle against a popular incumbant".

Adverb

1. Against difficulties; "she was talking uphill".

2. Upward on a hill or incline; "this street lay uphill".

Noun

1. The upward slope of a hill.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "uphill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references)

Synonyms: Uphill

Ascent

Adverb: uphill.

Difficulty

Noun: difficulty; hardness; Adjective: impracticability; (impossibility); tough work, hard work, uphill work; hard task, Herculean task, Augean task; task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor, tough job, teaser, rasper, dead lift.

Adverb: with difficulty, with much ado; barely, hardly; Adjective: uphill; against the stream, against the grain; d rebours; invita Minerva; in the teeth of; at a pinch, upon a pinch; at long odds, against long odds.

Exertion

Laborious, operose, elaborate; strained; toilsome, troublesome, wearisome; uphill; herculean, gymnastic, palestric.

A strong pull a long pull and a pull all together; dead lift; heft; gymnastics; exercise, exercitation; wear and tear; ado; toil and trouble; uphill work, hard work, warm work; harvest time.

Crosswords: Uphill

Caught up in a world of uphill climbing, (Mandy; performing artist: Barry Manilow)

A lonely path, an uphill climb (THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER; performing artist: Howard Jones)

Uphill Climb (1919)

The Uphill Path (1918)

Uphill All the Way (2001)

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Books

• An Uphill Climb (reference)

• Clergy Women: An Uphill Calling (reference)

• Fire Always Burns Uphill (reference)

• Fires All Around the Horizon: The U.N.'s Uphill Battle to Preserve the Peace (reference)

• Uphill All the Way: A Crew Member's Inside Story of the Bt Global Challenge (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Uphill All the Way (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Rolling Uphill from Texas (reference)

• Uphill Battle (reference)

• Uphill Slide (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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William Snaith, residence on Georgetown Rd., RD 3, Georgetown, Connecticut. Uphill shot in sunlight. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It may be uphill pedalling at first

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Business

Thus they face an uphill battle for the Canadian market. (references)

Economic History

Russia

While their record has been good to date, it is an uphill task. (references)

Japan

While the market for high-end luxury imports remains strong, foreign car companies by and large continue to face an uphill battle in the Japanese automobile market. (references)

Moldova

This was despite a prolonged drought and ice storms in November, 2000. Furthermore, the Moldovan government is optimistic and expects a five-percent GDP growth in 2001. The economy has so far been going uphill, with industrial output, retail, construction, services and most notably transportation showing signs of an increase in the first quarter of 2001. Moreover, experts forecast that in 2001 the grain crops will be almost double the level of 2000. (references)

Indigenous People

Japan

The Ainu continue to face societal discrimination while engaging in an uphill struggle against complete assimilation, although Ainu-language newspapers, radio programs, and academic programs studying Ainu culture have increased since 1997. In March the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) noted that the country "has not taken sufficient steps to address the issue of discriminatory treatment of Koreans and Ainu living in" the country. (references)

Political Economy

Japan

But we realize that the Prime Minister faces an uphill struggle against entrenched interests and intractable economic issues. (references)

Japan

As the costs of the system become increasingly apparent, those seeking reform--such as Prime Minister Koizumi--grow stronger, but it is an uphill struggle. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "uphill": ad uphill ♦ climb uphill ♦ go uphill ♦ uphill sky. Additional references.

Beginning with "uphill": uphill-shopping-street.

Albanian

përpjetë (jerk, upward, upwards), i përpjetë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرتقى, ‏عسير (complicated, difficult, hard, intractable, knotty, malaise, precipitous, severe, strait, strenuous, stubborn, terrible, troublesome), ‏صعدا, ‏صعد (ascend, ascent, balloon, climb, embark, escalate, go up, manacle, rise, scale, sublimate), ‏شاق (arduous, hard, laborious, malaise, onerous, painful, robust, stiff, strenuous, terrible, toilsome, troublesome, trying). (various references)

Bulgarian 

труден (arduous, awkward, complex, difficile, difficult, dodgy, formidable, heavy, knotty, laborious, lively, painful, perplexed, perplexing, pick-and-shovel, rocky, sore, spiny, stroppy, taxing, thorny, ticklish, tight, tough, tricky, troublesome, warm), тежък (cumbrous, dense, difficult, distressing, faint, grave, grievous, grinding, hammering, hard, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumping, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy, muggy, onerous, painful, plodding, ponderous, robust, rugged, sad, severe, shrewd, sledgehammer, slow, smart, smashing, soggy, solemn, sore, stiff, stodgy, taxing, thorny, tight, tough, traumatic, trying, unwieldy, weighty), нагоре (above, aloft, up, upstairs), нанагорен (rising, up, upward), нанагоре (upward, upwards), напрегнат (breathless, exacting, excited, intense, intent, laborious, nervy, overstrung, overwrought, strenuous, taut, tense, tight, uncool), извисяващ се (towering). (various references)

Chinese 

上升 (Ascendant, Ascendent, Ascent, Climb, Climbed, Climbing, Raise, Raised, Raising, rise, risen, rising, uplifted). (various references)

Czech

vyvýšený, vedoucí do kopce, tìžký (bad, chunky, dangerous, difficult, grave, grievous, hard, heady, heavy, labored, laboured, man-sized, ponderous, severe, stodgy, thick, weighty), svah (descent, dip, downgrade, downhill, fall, gradient, Hill, hillside, pitch, ramp, rise, side, slope, steep, upgrade), nesnadný (difficult, hard, tough), nahoru (above, up, upstairs, upward, upwards), krušný (grim, hard), do kopce. (various references)

Danish

opad (above, up, upwards), op ad (above, up, upwards), op (above, up, upwards). (various references)

Dutch

naar boven (above, up, upwards). (various references)

Esperanto

supren (above, up, upwards). (various references)

Faeroese

upp (above, up, upwards). (various references)

Farsi 

مشکل (Difficult, Hard, Ill, Knot, Problem), سربالاءی (Accolade, Ascent, Bent, Rise, Slope, Up, Upgrade), جاده سربالا, دشوار (Arduous, Difficult, Hard, Inexplicable, Intolerable, Laborious, Onerous, Slippery, Sore, Spiny, Sticky, Strait, Tough). (various references)

Finnish

ylämäkeä, vastamäkeä. (various references)

French

vers le haut (upwards), qui monte, pénible, montant (upright, upstream), montée, en montant (upward, upwards), difficile, ardu. (various references)

German

bergauf, bergan, aufwärts (above, up, upward, upwardly, upwards), nach oben (above, up, upstairs, upward, upwardly, upwards). (various references)

Greek 

προσ τα άνω (upward), προς τα πάνω (upwards), ανωφερήσ, ανηφορικόσ (steep), ανηφορικός, ανηφορία (acclivity), ανήφορος, ανοδικά (upwards). (various references)

Hebrew 

מיגע (grueling, gruelling, illsome, laborious, tiresome, toilsome, wearisome), לעלות (advance, ascend, climb, florish, go up, grow, rise), במעלה ההר. (various references)

Hungarian

hegynek felfelé, hegynek fel, fárasztó (against the collar, burdensome, difficult, exhausting, fatiguing, grinding, grueling, gruelling, irking, irksome, onerous, pain in the neck, stiff, sweaty, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, trying, warm, weariful, wearing, wearisome), emelkedõ (acclivity, ramp, upgrade, upward). (various references)

Indonesian

sulit (ardous, convolute, precarious). (various references)

Italian

salita (ascent, climb, climbing, increase, letter, mounting, rise, rising, slope, upgrade). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

難事業 (difficult undertaking, uphill task), 上り道 (uphill road), 上り勾配 (upgrade, uphill grade). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なんじぎょう (difficult undertaking, uphill task), のぼりこうばい (upgrade, uphill grade), のぼりみち (uphill road). (various references)

Manx

bollee (curving uphill road). (various references)

Norwegian

hit (above, here, up, upwards). (various references)

Papiamen

ariba (above, on, on top, over, overhead, up, upon, upstairs, upwards). (various references)

Pig Latin

illuphay.(various references)

Polish

w górę (above, up, upwards), do góry (above, up, upwards). (various references)

Portuguese

trabalhoso (hard-working, painful, sweaty, toilful, toilsome), paracima (overhead, up, upstairs, upwards), para cima (up, uppermost, upstair, upward), morro acima, ladeira acima. (various references)

Romanian

urcuş (ascent, slope, up, up grade, uprise), suiş (climbing, slope, up), obositor (backbreaking, hard, irksome, lingering, operose, painful, restless, strenuous, sweaty, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, troublesome, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary), greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, fatiguing, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, stolid, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, wearisome, weary, weight, weighty), în urcuş, în susul muntelui, în sus (aloft, on high, up, upward, upwards), în pantã (acclivous, aslope, declivous, downhill, rising, slanting, sloping). (various references)

Russian 

в гору. (various references)

Scottish

suas (above, up, upwards). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzbrdo, uzbrdan (acclivous). (various references)

Spanish

cuesta arriba (upwards). (various references)

Swedish

uppförsbacke (acclivity, ascent, rise), uppför backen, uppför (up, upwards), uppåt (above, in high spirits, up, up to, upon, upward, upwardly, upwards), upp (above, up, upward, upwards), stigning (acclivity, ascent, climb, gradient, rising, upgrade), stigande (increasing, rise, rising, soaring, upward), mödosam (arduous, difficult, hard, inconvenient, laborious, toilsome), brant (abrupt, arduous, edge, escarpment, precipice, precipitous, scarp, sharp, sheer, steep, steeply, verge), besvärlig (annoying, awkward, bothersome, cumbersome, cumbrous, difficult, incommodious, pestiferous, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguy, sticky, tough, troublesome, trying, warm, worrisome). (various references)

Turkish

zahmetli (demanding, drudging, exacting, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, gruelling, incommodious, inconvenient, labored, laboring, laborious, laboured, labouring, lucubratory, onerous, painful, toilful, toilsome, troublesome, troublous, trying, with an effort), yukarıya (aloft, overhead, up, upward, upwards), yokuş yukarı giden, yokuş yukarı (upgrade), yükselen (ascendant, ascendent, ascending, raising, rising, soaring, upgrade). (various references)

Ukrainian

що йде вгору, тяжкий (arduous, baffling, capital, chargeable, cumbersome, difficult), вгору (above, aloft, upstairs), підйом (ascension, ascent, heave, instep, lift, raise, rouse, up, upgrade, uplift). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lên dốc, dốc (bias, declivity, gradient, ramp, slope, slopewise, sloping, steep, versant), đường dốc (ascent, gradient, slope). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "uphill": uphills. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Uphill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elhill, phyll, Pucill, Pudhill, Ubhal, uffill, Upehull, uptil. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: hill, hull, pill, puli, pull.

-3 letters: hip, hup, ill, lip, phi, piu, pul.

-4 letters: hi, li, pi, uh, up.

+1 letter: uphills.

+2 letters: bullwhip, plushily.

+3 letters: bullwhips, lumpishly.

+4 letters: callithump, phyllodium.

+5 letters: ailurophile, bullwhipped, callithumps, nucleophile, prothallium, publishable, punchinello.