uphill

See also: Uphill

English edit

Etymology edit

up +‎ hill.

Pronunciation edit

(adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /ˈʌphɪl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(adverb) IPA^(key): /ʌpˈhɪl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪl

Adverb edit

uphill (comparative more uphill, superlative most uphill)

Up a slope, towards higher ground.
(by extension) With difficulty.

Antonyms edit

downhill

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

up a slope, towards higher ground

Bulgarian: нагоре (bg) (nagore)
Catalan: costa amunt
Chinese:
Mandarin: 上坡 (zh) (shàngpō)
Czech: nahoru (cs), do kopce
Danish: op ad bakke (da)
French: en montée, en amont (fr)
Galician: costa arriba
Georgian: აღმართი (aɣmarti)
German: bergauf (de), bergan (de)
Irish: in éadan an chnoic
Italian: in salita
Japanese: 上り坂 (ja) (のぼりざか, noborizaka)
Latvian: kalnup
Maori: ki runga
Plautdietsch: boajopp
Polish: pod górę
Portuguese: ladeira acima
Russian: в го́ру (ru) (v góru), наве́рх (ru) (navérx)
Spanish: cuesta arriba
Swedish: uppför (sv)
Tamil: மேட்டில் (mēṭṭil)
Welsh: i fyny allt, lan rhiw

(by extension) with difficulty

Bulgarian: трудно (bg) (trudno)
Galician: costa arriba
Italian: in salita
Russian: с трудо́м (ru) (s trudóm)
Spanish: cuesta arriba

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Romanian: ^{(please verify)} amonte (ro) (1), ^{(please verify)} dificil (ro) (2)
Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} uzbrdo (sh) f

Adjective edit

uphill (comparative further uphill, superlative furthest uphill)

Located up a slope or on a hill.
Going up a slope or a hill.
- 1900, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel‎^[1]:
  “There’s a lot of uphill about a bicycle tour,” said he, “and the wind is against you.”
  “So there is downhill, and the wind behind you,” said Harris.
- 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9:
  The engine seemed a little sensitive to wet rails, and in consequence the uphill work was not so good north of Dundee as it had been earlier. But I have noted this same "touchiness" on the part of the "A4s", and other modern British 4-6-2s, so that in this respect No. 2006 proved no exception.
(by extension) Difficult or laborious.
- 2022 June 7, Phil McNulty, “Germany 1-1- England”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:
  For a large part of this game, England once again looked like a team suffering from the rigours of a long season and faced an uphill task when Hofmann put Germany in front.