acclivity

Other forms of acclivity

plural

acclivities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acclivity

What does acclivity mean?

acclivity means "an upward slope or grade (as in a road)".

How many syllables are in acclivity?

acclivity has 4 syllables: ac-cli-vi-ty. The stress falls on "cli".

What is another word for acclivity?

Close synonyms include ascent, rise, raise, climb, upgrade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acclivity a common word?

acclivity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.