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sloping

Syllables: slop·ingUK/ˈsləʊpɪŋ//ˈsloʊpɪŋ/

sloping adjective: having a slope. Also the present participle and gerund of slope.

Adjective

sloping (comparative more sloping, superlative most sloping)

  1. Having a slope.
    • a sloping roof
    • The beefarm on her sloping meadows, the sweet / Exacting spaces spinning honey; / Under the elms and the sycamores / The light leaves cherish many flowers, / The light air under the boughs threaded / With the vivid bees who return1993, Peter Redgrove, “The Mountain”, in The Laborators, Taxus Press, →ISBN, page 27

Verb

sloping

  1. (syntactically adverbial) in a sloping manner
    • the road cut through the fields sloping

Noun

sloping (plural slopings)

  1. An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.

Also used as

sloping is also the present participle and gerund of slope.

sloping meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Gujarati

sloping in Urdu

ڈھلواں

sloping in Malayalam

സ്ലോപ്പിംഗ്

sloping in Kannada

ಇಳಿಜಾರಿನ

sloping in Gujarati

ઢાળવાળી
More languagesFewer languages
sloping in Odia
ଢଳୁଥିବା
sloping in Nepali
स्लोपिङ

Synonyms of sloping

Forms of sloping

Adjective
comparativemore sloping
superlativemost sloping
Noun
pluralslopings

Words formed from sloping

Phrases with sloping

Words that rhyme with sloping

Questions about sloping

What does sloping mean?
Sloping means having a slope.
What is sloping in Urdu?
Sloping in Urdu is ڈھلواں. See Sloping meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is sloping?
Sloping can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce sloping?
Sloping is pronounced /ˈsləʊpɪŋ/ (UK).

Words near sloping in the dictionary

  1. slopified
  2. slopifies
  3. slopify
  4. slopifying
  5. slopiness
  6. sloping
  7. Sloping Main
  8. sloping off
  9. slopingly
  10. slopingness
  11. slopings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sloping (page history and authors); sloping (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sloping (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sloping (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sloping (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sloping (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sloping (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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