| Main Entry: | slope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | slant, tilt |
Synonyms: |
angle, ascend, bank, bevel, cant, descend, dip, drop, drop away, fall, heel, incline, lean, list, pitch, rake, recline, rise, shelve, skew, splay, tip |
Antonyms: |
even, level |
| Main Entry: | sloping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | askew |
Synonyms: |
aslant, aslope, inclining, oblique, slanted, tilted |
| Main Entry: | sloping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | slanting |
Synonyms: |
acclivous, askew, aslant, declivous, downhill, inclined, leaning, oblique, pitched, supine, tilted |
Antonyms: |
level, straight |
| 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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| Main Entry: | bank |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lean or tilt |
Synonyms: |
bend, camber, cant, incline, pitch, slant, slope |
Antonyms: |
straighten |
| Main Entry: | cant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lean, slant |
Synonyms: |
angle, bevel, careen, grade, heel, incline, list, recline, rise, slope, tilt, tip |
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | descend |
Synonyms: |
dip, droop, drop, fall, go down, lower, sag, set, settle, sink, slant, slope |
| Notes: | one declines (or accepts) something that is offered; one refuses (or agrees) to accept something offered |
Antonyms: |
ascend, go up, rise |
| Main Entry: | descend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move down, lower a |
Synonyms: |
cascade, cataract, cave in, coast, collapse, crash, crouch, decline, deplane, detrain, dip, disembark, dismount, dive, dribble, drop, fall, fall prostrate, get down, get off, go down, gravitate, ground, incline, light, lose balance, penetrate, pitch, plop, plummet, plunge, prolapse, set, settle, sink, slant, slide, slip, slope, slough off, slump, stoop, stumble, submerge, subside, swoop, toboggan, topple, trickle, trip, tumble, weep |
Antonyms: |
ascend, go up, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | dip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lower, descend |
Synonyms: |
bend, decline, disappear, droop, drop down, fade, fall, go down, incline, nose-dive, plummet, plunge, reach, recede, sag, set, settle, sheer, sink, skew, skid, slant, slip, slope, slue, slump, spiral, subside, swoop, tilt, tumble, veer, verge |
Antonyms: |
ascend, raise |
| Main Entry: | fall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | descend; become lower |
Synonyms: |
abate, backslide, be precipitated, break down, buckle, cascade, cave in, collapse, crash, decline, decrease, depreciate, diminish, dip, dive, drag, droop, drop down, dwindle, ease, ebb, flag, flop, fold up, go down, gravitate, hit the dirt, keel over, land, lapse, lessen, nose-dive, pitch, plummet, plunge, recede, regress, relapse, settle, sink, slip, slope, slump, spin, stumble, subside, take a header, tip over, topple, totter, trail, trip, tumble, wane |
Antonyms: |
ascend, climb, go up, rise, scale |