uphill

Other forms of uphill

plural

uphills·

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 uphill

What does uphill mean?

uphill means "against difficulties". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in uphill?

uphill has 2 syllables: up-hill. The stress falls on "up". In IPA it is /ˈʌpˈhɪl/.

What is another word for uphill?

Close synonyms include acclivitous, rising. 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 uphill a common word?

uphill is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with uphill?

5 words rhyme with uphill. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.