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Synonyms & Antonyms of uphill
(Entry 1 of 2)
requiring considerable physical or mental effort
- an uphill battle to eradicate poverty in an area of the state that has never known anything else
Synonyms for uphill
- arduous,
- Augean,
- backbreaking,
- challenging,
- demanding,
- difficult,
- effortful,
- exacting,
- formidable,
- grueling
- (or gruelling),
- hard,
- heavy,
- hellacious,
- herculean,
- killer,
- laborious,
- moiling,
- murderous,
- pick-and-shovel,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- severe,
- stiff,
- strenuous,
- sweaty,
- tall,
- testing,
- toilsome,
- tough
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Antonyms for uphill
- cheap,
- easy,
- effortless,
- facile,
- light,
- mindless,
- simple,
- soft,
- undemanding
uphill
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of uphill (Entry 2 of 2)
an upward slope
- no matter where you go bicycle touring, the uphills always seem to outnumber the downhills
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The first known use of uphill was in 1535
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