What does UPHILL mean?
Definitions for UPHILL
ˈʌpˈhɪl; ˈʌpˌhɪlup·hill
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Princeton's WordNet
uphilladjective
the upward slope of a hill
acclivitous, rising, uphilladverb
sloping upward
uphilladverb
against difficulties
"she was talking uphill"
uphilladverb
upward on a hill or incline
"this street lay uphill"
Wiktionary
uphillnoun
An uphill route.
uphilladverb
up a slope, towards higher ground
uphilladverb
with difficulty
uphilladjective
located up a slope or on a hill
uphilladjective
going up a slope or a hill
uphilladjective
difficult or laborious
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Uphilladjective
Difficult; like the labour of climbing an hill.
Etymology: up and hill.
What an uphill labour must it be to a learner, who has those first rudiments to master at twenty years of age, which others are taught at ten. Clarissa.
Wikipedia
Uphill
Uphill is a village in the civil parish of Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, England, at the southern edge of the town, on the Bristol Channel coast.
ChatGPT
uphill
Uphill refers to a direction or route that leads toward higher ground or an upper part of a slope. It can also signify a situation that requires hard work, struggle, or significant efforts to overcome challenges.
Webster Dictionary
Uphilladverb
upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill
Uphilladjective
ascending; going up; as, an uphill road
Uphilladjective
attended with labor; difficult; as, uphill work
Wikidata
Uphill
Uphill is a village in the civil parish of Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, England, at the southern edge of the town, on the Bristol Channel coast.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Uphill
up′hil, adj. ascending: difficult.—adv. up a hill, against difficulties.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of UPHILL in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of UPHILL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of UPHILL in a Sentence
The government ultimately will have an uphill fight.
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It’s an uphill fight, i don't want to give anybody the illusion that we're there, but hopefully we can get 50 of us to come to an agreement.
We are unfortunately now waging an uphill battle on this front, the CDC also noted the majority of these infections are affecting young people - the demographic that is on their mobile phones all day long.
The result is not especially surprising given the uphill battle The Federal Government faced in defending such a content - based speech restriction. But the implications of the Court's decision to save the rest of the statute are potentially quite significant, how courts should treat the rest of a statute when one provision is unconstitutional is at the heart of the major Obamacare challenge the Justices are set to hear next fall.
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