| Main Entry: | hill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uprising of earth's surface; pile |
Synonyms: |
acclivity, ascent, bluff, butte, cliff, climb, down, drift, dune, elevation, eminence, esker, fell, gradient, headland, heap, height, highland, hillock, hillside, hilltop, hummock, inclination, incline, knoll, mesa, mound, mount, precipice, prominence, promontory, protuberance, range, ridge, rise, rising ground, shock, slope, stack, summit, talus, tor, upland |
Antonyms: |
canyon, ditch, gulley |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movement upward; upward slope |
Synonyms: |
acclivity, ascension, ascent, climb, elevation, eminence, highland, hillock, incline, lift, mount, rising, rising ground, soaring, surge, towering, upland, upsurge |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' |
Antonyms: |
decline, drop, fall |
| Main Entry: | slope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slant, tilt |
Synonyms: |
abruptness, bank, bend, bevel, bias, cant, declination, declivity, deflection, descent, deviation, diagonal, downgrade, gradient, hill, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, obliqueness, obliquity, pitch, ramp, rise, rising ground, shelf, skew, steepness, swag, sway, tip |
Antonyms: |
evenness, level |
| Main Entry: | slope |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
abrupt, acclivous, ajee, anticlinal, antiparallel, ascending, askew, aslant, athwart, awry, battered, bevel, breakneck, calculated to, canted, clinal, conducive, crooked, curved, declining, declivous, descending, devex, diagonal, downhill, falling, in a fair way to, inclined, indirect, knock, oblique, out of the perpendicular, plagiedral, precipitous, raked back, recumbent, rising, skew, skygodlin, slant, slantendicular, sloping, steep, subservient, tilted, transversal, transverse, uphill, wry
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