aslope

  • 41sloping — Synonyms and related words: aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, canting, careening, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, leaning, listing, oblique, out of plumb, out of square, pitched, pitching, raking, recumbent,… …

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  • 42tilting — Synonyms and related words: aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, canting, careening, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, leaning, listing, oblique, out of plumb, out of square, pitched, pitching, raking, recumbent,… …

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  • 43tipped — Synonyms and related words: aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, canting, capped, careening, crested, crowned, headed, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, leaning, listing, oblique, out of plumb, out of square, peaked …

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  • 44tipping — Synonyms and related words: aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, canting, careening, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, leaning, listing, out of plumb, out of square, pitched, raking, recumbent, shelving, shelvy,… …

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  • 45tipsy — Synonyms and related words: addled, aslant, aslope, atilt, beery, bemused, besotted, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, blind drunk, boozy, canting, careening, crapulent, crapulous, dazed, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, far gone, flustered, fou,… …

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  • 46upgrade — Synonyms and related words: abruptness, acclinate, acclivitous, acclivity, acculturate, advance, aggrandize, ameliorate, amend, anabasis, anabatic, ascendant, ascending, ascension, ascensional, ascensive, ascent, aslant, aslantwise, aslope, at a… …

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  • 47uphill — Synonyms and related words: Herculean, abruptness, abstruse, acclinate, acclivitous, acclivity, anabasis, anabatic, arduous, ascendant, ascending, ascension, ascensional, ascensive, ascent, aslant, aslantwise, aslope, at a slant, atilt,… …

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  • 48slope — slope1 W3 [sləup US sloup] n 1.) a piece of ground or a surface that slopes ▪ a steep slope ▪ a gentle (=not steep) slope ▪ She looked back up the grassy slope. 2.) an area of steep ground covered with snow that people ↑ski down ▪ …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 49slope — [15] The noun slope did not emerge until the 17th century. Originally it was an adverb, short for the now defunct aslope. This is generally supposed to go back to an unrecorded Old English *āslopean, an adverbial use of the past participle of… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 50slope — (v.) 1590s, from earlier adj. meaning slanting (c.1500), probably from M.E. aslope (adv.) on the incline (late 15c.), from O.E. *aslopen, pp. of aslupan to slip away, from a away + slupan to slip (see SLEEVE (Cf. sleeve)). The noun is first… …

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