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発音

• (adjective, noun) IPA: /ˈʌphɪl/
• IPA: (adverb) /ʌpˈhɪl/
• 韻: -ɪl

副詞

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

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

反意語

• downhill

派生語

形容詞

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

1. Located up a slope or on a hill.

   Antonym: downhill

2. Going up a slope or a hill.

   Antonym: downhill

   • 1900, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel‎:

     “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.

   • 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 9:

     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.

3. (by extension) Difficult or laborious.
   • 2022 June 7, Phil McNulty, “Germany 1-1- England”, in BBC Sport‎:

     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.

使用する際の注意点

• The comparative and superlative forms of the third sense are usually constructed with more and most.

派生語

名詞

uphill (plural uphills)

1. An uphill route.

反意語

• downhill

動詞

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

1. (skiing, snowboarding) To travel uphill.

   Hyponyms: skin, skin up