downward-sloping

1. 1.

   sloping down rather steeply

   Synonymsdeclivitousdownhill

   Similardescending

Questions about downward-sloping

What does downward-sloping mean?

downward-sloping means "sloping down rather steeply".

How many syllables are in downward-sloping?

downward-sloping has 4 syllables: down-ward--slo-ping. The stress falls on "ward-".

What is another word for downward-sloping?

Close synonyms include declivitous, downhill. 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 downward-sloping a common word?

downward-sloping 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.