uphill

Adverb

uphill (comparative further uphill or farther uphill, superlative furthest uphill or farthest uphill)

1. Up a slope, towards higher ground.
2. (broadly) With difficulty.

Adjective

IPA/ˈʌphɪl/

uphill (comparative further uphill or farther uphill, superlative furthest uphill or farthest uphill)

1. Located up a slope or on a hill.

   Antonyms:

   downhill

2. Going up a slope or a hill.
   • “There’s a lot of uphill about a bicycle tour,” said he, “and the wind is against you.”
     “So there is downhill, and the wind behind you,” said Harris.1900, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel
   • The engine seemed a little sensitive to wet rails, and in consequence the uphill work was not so good north of Dundee as it had been earlier. But I have noted this same "touchiness" on the part of the "A4s", and other modern British 4-6-2s, so that in this respect No. 2006 proved no exception.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9

   Antonyms:

   downhill

3. (broadly) Difficult or laborious.
   • For a large part of this game, England once again looked like a team suffering from the rigours of a long season and faced an uphill task when Hofmann put Germany in front.2022 June 7, Phil McNulty, “Germany 1-1- England”, in BBC Sport

Noun

IPA/ˈʌphɪl/

uphill (plural uphills)

1. An uphill route.

Verb

uphill (third-person singular simple present uphills, present participle uphilling, simple past and past participle uphilled)

1. To travel uphill.

Proper noun capitalized: Uphill

IPA/ˈʌphɪl/

Uphill

1. A suburban village in Weston-super-Mare parish, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3158).
2. A community in Dalton Township, Ontario, Canada.
3. A surname.