Downhill

Definition: Downhill

Downhill

Adjective

1. Sloping down rather steeply.

Adverb

1. Toward a lower or inferior state; "your performance has been going downhill for a long time now".

2. Toward the bottom of a hill; "running downhill, he gained a lot of speed".

Noun

1. The downward slope of a hill.

2. A ski race down a trail.

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

Date "downhill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonyms: Downhill

Adversity

Go downhill, go to rack and ruin; (destruction), go to the dogs; fall, fall from one's high estate; decay, sink, decline, go down in the world; have seen better days; bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; come to grief; be all over, be up with; bring a wasp's nest about one's ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.

Descent

Adverb: downhill, downwards.

Deterioration

Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse,Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out of the frying pan into the fire.

Obliquity

Acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd, rising ground, hill, bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity; gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent; shelving beach; talus; monagne Russe; facilis descensus averni.

Crosswords: Downhill

I always liked going South, somehow it feels like going downhill. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

It's all downhill from here (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner)

All downhill. (The Towering Inferno; writing credit: Richard Martin Stern; Thomas N. Scortia)

Downhill (1973)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cross-Country Downhill and Other Nordic Mountain Skiing Techniques (reference)

• Downhill All the Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919 to 1939 (reference)

• Downhill Megan (Magic Attic Club) (reference)

• It's All Downhill from Here (For Better or for Worse Collection) (reference)

• Learn Downhill Skiing in a Weekend (Weekend Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Downhill Racer (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• In This World 1 / Piano & Strings / Downhill [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• No Fear Downhill Mountain Biking (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Erosion is severe on hillside with up and downhill farming without the use of crop residues or other conservation methods. Credit: Lynn Betts.

A broken pump on Erasty Emvich's farm near Battle Ground, Indiana. The tenant has to go downhill one hundred yeards from his house for water. Credit: Library of Congress.

1917-1918, reference prints from negatives. Cows moving downhill away from tree. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

You will hold him up a little going downhill.

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Expressions using "downhill": ad downhill ♦ downhill course ♦ downhill race ♦ downhill ski ♦ go downhill ♦ take downhill. Additional references.

Albanian

zbritës (landing, subtrahend), teposhtë (down, downwards), tatëpjetë (bevel, decline, declivity, descent, dip, down, downward, downwards, incline, ramp, slant, slope), për zbritje, pa problem (safely, trouble-free), keq (awry, bad, badly, foul, miserable, nasty, poor, poorly), i tatëpjetë (abrupt, slant), i lehtë (airy, easy, effortless, ethereal, etherial, expedite, facile, feathery, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, ready, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منحدر (aslope, chute, decline, declivity, descending, descent, dipped, downgrade, downward, inclined, slanted, slope, sloped, sloping, talus), ‏نحو وضع أدنى, ‏ذز علاقة بسباق تزلج, ‏إنحدار (coming down, decline, declivity, downgrade, falling, inclination, rake, ramp, scarp, slope, steep, tilt). (various references)

Bulgarian 

склон (ascent, decline, declivity, descent, drop, flank, hang, hanging, hillside, inclination, incline, pitch, pitching, ramp, side, slant, slope, talus, versant), наклонен (hanging, inclined, intent, low-grade, oblique, one sided, prone, rampant, ready, scalene, skew, slant, slantindicular, slanting, sloped, sloping, splay, supine), нанадолен (down, downgrade, downward), полегат (declivous, inclined, oblique, prone, rampant, slant, slantindicular, slanting, sloping). (various references)

Chinese 

下坡. (various references)

Czech

z kopce, svah (descent, dip, downgrade, fall, gradient, Hill, hillside, pitch, ramp, rise, side, slope, steep, upgrade, uphill), svažující se (declivitous, sloping), sjezd (congress). (various references)

Danish

nedad (down). (various references)

Dutch

naar beneden (down, underneath), bergafwaarts (down the slope). (various references)

Esperanto

montsuben (down the slope). (various references)

Farsi 

نشیب (Bent), سرپاءینی , سرازیری (Bent, Declivity, Dip, Pitch, Slide, Slope, Tilt), انحطاط (Chute, Decadence, Decline, Degeneration, Downfall, Retrogradation, Slough). (various references)

Finnish

viettävä (slanting, sloping), syöksylasku, myötä mäkeä, mäkeä alas, alamäkeä. (various references)

French

dans le sens de la descente, vers le bas (down, downward, downwards), sur le déclin, en pente qui descend (downward), en descendant. (various references)

Frisian

minder wurde (be on the decline, go downhill, go off), ôftakelje (be on the decline, dismantle, go downhill, go off, unrig). (various references)

German

bergab (downward), abwärts (down, downward, downwards). (various references)

Greek 

κατηφορικόσ (downgrade), καθοδικά (downwards), προς τα κάτω (downstream, downwards). (various references)

Hebrew 

מדרוני (sloping), יורד (impoverished), למטה (below, beneath, down, down ward, henceforth, under), אל רגלי ההר, במדרון, בירידה. (various references)

Hungarian

lesiklás, lejtõs (askew, aslope, inclined, sloping, steep), lejtés (batter, droop, gradient, hang, inclination, pitching, rake, slope, swing). (various references)

Italian

discesa (declivity, descent, drop, fall, slope), discendente (descandent, descendant, descending, down, offspring, scion, successor), declino (declension, decline, wane), verso il basso (downward), inclinato (a-tilt, broken, inclined, nodding, oblique, slanting, sloping), in pendio, in dicesa. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

下り坂　 (decline, descent, waning), 下り坂 (decline, descent, waning), 下坂 (decline, waning). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しもさか (decline, waning), くだりざか (decline, descent, waning). (various references)

Manx

sheese ny lhiargagh, neose yn ughtagh, heese (beneath, down, hereafter, knock-down, knock-down prices, lower end, under). (various references)

Pig Latin

ownhillday.(various references)

Portuguese

descida (climbdown, descent, down, winze), declive (abruptness, acclivity, cant, climbdown, declination, declivity, declivous, descent, hang, hillside, incline, lay, ramp, side, slant, slanting, slide, slope, sloping, tilt, weathering), súbito ataque (climbdown, descent, down), por baixo (below, down, downwards, under, underlying, underneath), para baixo (down, downstairs, downward), linhagem (ancestry, blood, climbdown, descent, down, extraction, family, line, lineage, parentage, pedigree, provenance, sackcloth), inclinado (apt, aslope, atilt, bent, biased, canted, declivous, inclinable, incumbent, leaning, minded, oblique, pendulous, prone, ready, slanting, sloping, superabundant), inclinação (addiction, appetite, bent, bias, camber, canting, climbdown, declination, declivity, descent, disposal, disposition, droop, falling, fellow feeling, fondness, lean, leaning, like, liking, list, lopsidedness, motion, partiality, penchant, proclivity, propensity, rake, ramp, recession, sag, slant, stomach, tendency, tilt, tip, trend, vocation, will), encosta (acclivity, hill, hillside, side, slope), em decadência, em baixo (at bottom, below, down, downstairs, downwards, flatly), abaixo (below, beneath, down, downstairs, downwards, thereunder, underneath), a descer. (various references)

Romanian

declin (anticlimax, consenescence, decay, declension, declination, decline, descent, ebb, fall, falling off, let down, regress, sunset, wane), uşor (easily, easy, facile, fluffy, gauzy, gentle, glib, gossamer, jamb, lax, light, light of foot, lightly, lightsome, rate, readily, ready, running, simple, slight, small, soft, superficial, swimmingly, thin, with a wet finger), pantã (acclivity, chute, cliff, declension, declivity, descent, dip, fall, glacis, gradient, hade, inclination, incline, ramp, slant, slope, splay, tilt, up), care coboarã în pantã, în pantã (acclivous, aslope, declivous, rising, slanting, sloping, uphill), în jos (adown, downward). (various references)

Russian 

склон (decline, declivity, fall, mountainside, slope), спуск (alighting, chute, climb down, descend, descent, discharge, down), наклонный (inclined, oblique, prone, reclinate, sideling, slant, slanting, slantwise, sloped, sloping), покатый (acclivous, declivous, sloping), под гору, исходящий (outgoing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

strmina (gradient), strm (abrupt, bluff, declivous, precipitant, slant, steep), padina (bias, dip, hillside, scarp, sklent, slope), nizbrdo (downward, downwards, skid: on the skid). (various references)

Spanish

cuesta abajo (down the slope). (various references)

Swedish

utför (down, downwards, executes, performing, performs), sluttning (cant, decline, declivity, descent, dip, fall, Hill, hillside, incline, pitch, slant, slope), sluttande (cant, declivous, inclined, prone, slanting, sloping). (various references)

Thai

การแข่งสกีภูเขา, ลงเขา. (various references)

Turkish

yokuş aşağı, meyilli (aslant, aslope, bias, declivitous, inclinable, inclined, leaning, oblique, on the slope, prone, skew, slant, slanting, slantwise, sloping, subject to, tilting), kolay (cushy, easy, effortless, facile, flowing, open and shut, ready, simple, smooth, straightforward, uncomplicated, unlaboured), inişli. (various references)

Ukrainian

униз (alow, below, down, down grade, downstairs, downward, downwards, netherward, under), спуск (alighting, chute, climb down, descent, down, way down), на заході, похилий (askew, aslope, canting, declining, inclined, oblique, prone, sidelong, slanting, sloping). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dốc xuống (declivous). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "downhill": downhiller, downhillers, downhills. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Downhill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dhomnaill, Donwhill, downhall, downhiller, downily, Townhall, Townhill, Trowhill. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: hillo, indol, indow.

-4 letters: dhow, dill, diol, doll, down, hill, hind, hold, howl, idol, lido, lino, lion, loin, lown, nill, nodi, noil, whid, whin, wild, will, wind, wino, wold.

-5 letters: din, dol, don, dow, hid, hin, hod, hon, how, ill, ion, lid, lin, low, nil, nod, noh, now, oil, old, owl, own, who.

+1 letter: downhills.

+2 letters: downhiller.

+3 letters: downhillers.