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
Gramicci’s Loose Tapered pants are the king of hiking bottoms, they’re loose and extra roomy for taking wide strides and going uphill, but they’re cropped and tapered for a stylish look off the trail. I have four pairs in different colors and they’re the most flattering pant I own.
He’s got an uphill climb to be competitive in this race, just to put it bluntly, he’s an unknown running as a Republican in that district.
I agree that it's an uphill slog to see federal legalization, but what we're putting on the table is inevitability, when you get to the point when half of the country has legalized for adult-use, we have now set a stage for inevitability. And that begins to change the tone and tenor in Washington.
The golden rule with kit is to take less than you think you need, you have to lug that all uphill, and no matter how frugal you are, you will find yourself after a week's touring at the post office with a box of stuff being posted home.
That said, they would have an uphill fight from a disadvantageous position, as we saw in the mortgage crisis and the wave of bankruptcies that followed, possession of documents matters when you're trying to assert a secured claim.
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