Antonyms for slopes

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : slohp

Phonetic Transcription : sloʊp

Definition of slopes

Origin : 1590s, "go in an oblique direction," from earlier adjective meaning "slanting" (c.1500), probably from Middle English aslope (adv.) "on the incline" (late 15c.), from Old English *aslopen, past participle of aslupan "to slip away," from a- "away" + slupan "to slip" (see sleeve). From 1709 as "to be in a slanting position;" transitive sense "place in a slanting position" is from c.1600. Related: Sloped; sloping.

noun slant, tilt
verb slant, tilt

Example sentences :

But the slopes were not over-steep, and I was able to get on pretty fast.
Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald

But I remember him, in an English setting, and on the slopes of English hills.
Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume I » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

The Germans knew the exact range of every square foot of the slopes.
Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various

And now the sunlight raced down the slopes of the old mountains like a tide.
Extract from : « Love-at-Arms » by Raphael Sabatini

Close at hand vegetation appeared upon the slopes of the hills.
Extract from : « The Coyote » by James Roberts

For the most part these slopes and walls are exceedingly hard to climb.
Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey

Its back was to the slopes that rose by marshy terraces to the hills.
Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman

The slopes of the knoll were bare, but there were a few trees on the summit.
Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad

To this spot the slopes both ways tend, and there they meet.
Extract from : « Byeways in Palestine » by James Finn

Can you name a street which is level, and one that slants or slopes?
Extract from : « Where We Live » by Emilie Van Beil Jacobs

Synonyms for slopes

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