uphill

uphill
    adv 1: against difficulties; "she was talking uphill"
    2: upward on a hill or incline; "this street lay uphill"
    adj 1: sloping upward [syn: {acclivitous}, {rising}, {uphill}]
    n 1: the upward slope of a hill
    

Uphill \Up*hill"\, adv.
   Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill.
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Uphill \Up"hill`\, a.
   1. Ascending; going up; as, an uphill road.
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   2. Attended with labor; difficult; as, uphill work.
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166 Moby Thesaurus words for "uphill":
      Herculean, abruptness, abstruse, acclinate, acclivitous, acclivity,
      anabasis, anabatic, arduous, ascendant, ascending, ascension,
      ascensional, ascensive, ascent, aslant, aslantwise, aslope,
      at a slant, atilt, backbreaking, brutal, burdensome, clamber,
      climb, climbing, complex, critical, crushing, delicate, demanding,
      difficile, difficult, downgrade, downhill, effortful, elevation,
      escalade, exacting, forced, formidable, fountain, grueling, gush,
      gyring up, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavenward,
      heavy, hefty, in the ascendant, increase, intricate, jawbreaking,
      jet, jump, killing, knotted, knotty, labored, laborious, leap,
      leaping, levitation, mean, mount, mounting, no picnic, not easy,
      off plumb, onerous, operose, oppressive, painful, precipitousness,
      punishing, rakingly, rampant, rearing, rigorous, rise, rising,
      rising ground, rocketing up, rough, rugged, saltation, saltatory,
      scandent, scansorial, set with thorns, severe, shooting up,
      skyrocketing, skyward, slantingly, slantways, slantwise,
      slaunchways, slopeways, slopingly, soaring, spiny, spiraling,
      spout, spring, springing, spurt, steep, steepness, strained,
      strenuous, surge, takeoff, taking off, thorny, ticklish, tipsily,
      toilsome, tough, tricky, troublesome, up, up attic, up north,
      up steps, upalong, uparching, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang,
      upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphillward, upleap, uplift,
      uplong, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot,
      upslope, upsloping, upstairs, upstream, upstreamward, upsurge,
      upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, uptown, upward, upwards, upwith,
      vault, verticalness, wearisome, wicked, zooming