Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Down the slope of a hill.
- adv. Toward a lower or worse condition: The alcoholic's health went downhill fast.
- adj. Sloping downward; descending.
- adj. Sports Of, relating to, or constituting skiing down a slope: a downhill racer.
- n. A downhill skiing race.
- n. A downward gradient; a descending slope.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Sloping downward; descending; declining.
Wiktionary
- adv. Down a slope
- adj. located down a slope or hill
- adj. going down a slope or a hill
- adj. by extension easy
- adj. by extension deteriorating, getting worse
- n. uncountable The fastest of the disciplines of alpine skiing
- n. countable A rapid descent of a hill in related sports, especially in alpine skiing
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Towards the bottom of a hill.
- adj. Declivous; descending; sloping.
- n. Declivity; descent; slope.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. toward a lower or inferior state
- n. a ski race down a trail
- adv. toward the bottom of a hill
- adj. sloping down rather steeply
- n. the downward slope of a hill
Etymologies
- down- + hill (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But he made one mistake just before a big jump, and one mistake in downhill is all it takes.”
USATODAY.com - Rahlves a downhill demon looking to make his own name
“• His fourth-place finish in the downhill is the only time this season Miller hasn't reached the podium in a race that he finished.”
USATODAY.com - Miller takes weekly honors with fifth, sixth wins
“In the summers, Del Bosco competed in downhill mountain bike races.”
For ski cross racer Del Bosco, new sport offered a fresh start
“Triple 2010 Olympic medalist Miller missed the World Cup finals with an ankle injury and finished 20th overall, 17th in downhill, 18th in super-G and fifth in super-combined.”
“Other than that, the U.S. men have gotten off to a desultory start, with only diminutive 5-6 downhiller Andy Weibrecht, 23, distinguishing himself with 12th-place finishes last weekend in downhill and super-G.”
“As I say, it all went downhill from the Edwardians. jt Says:”
“At the 2006 Olympics, when Vonn, then 21, crashed in downhill training and failed to win a medal while racing through the pain in her back and hip, she still had some baby fat.”
“I'm not going to compete in downhill skiing or ice dancing.”
“Vonn won a gold in downhill and bronze in super-G at these Olympics.”
“On inclined roofs the efflorescence stain may occur downhill from the source of the leak on the roof and not directly above the stain.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘downhill’.
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SPOR - Olympic glossary
hurdle, tempo, consortium, caption, mutual understanding, jury, radio, javelin, extra time, boxing, Lander, European and 521 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Autantonyms
Words with mutually exclusive double meanings. Also, here are some:
QUASI-AUTANTONYMS: slow up/slow down; bar/debar; bone/debone; burn up/burn down; fat chance/slim chance; fill in/fil...clip, cleave, sanction, handicap, fast, jibe, secrete, aloha, bimonthly, bolt, cheerio, commencement and 139 more...
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Contronympho
A list of my most favorite contronyms, words that 'defeat themselves' by having multiple-meanings which contradict. Also called antagonyms, auto-antonyms, autantonyms, Janus words, and self-antony...
over, identify, clear, before, execute, bolt, custom, garnish, left, off, charge, save and 56 more...
Tweets
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alexz mountain biking - down hill riding which has steep terrain and large drops
Jan 12, 2013
oroboros "Things are really going downhill now, yikes!"
"At last, it's all downhill now!" Aug 27, 2009