| 单词 | declivity |
| 释义 | declivity (once / 3222 pages) n If you're standing at the top of a hill looking down to the bottom, you're staring down a declivity, a downward slope of any kind. The word declivity comes from the Latin words de, which means "down," and clivus, which means "slope." If you're at the bottom of the hill looking up, you'll see the opposite of a declivity. From that position you'll be looking at an acclivity, an upward slope. WORD FAMILYdeclivity: declivities, declivitous+/declivitous: declivitously USAGE EXAMPLESLater, I had screeched to a halt at the lip of a sharp declivity and, unable to find a foothold, simply timberrrrrrrrred into the sagebrush. New York Times(Sep 13, 2016) But Jack was pointing to the high declivities that led down from the mountain to the flatter part of the island. William Golding, Lord of the Flies(1954) Siddhartha wandered along a strange, twisted path of this last and most base declivity through the game of dice. Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha(1922) n a downward slope or bend Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper declension, declination, decline, descent, downslope, fall acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, rise, upgrade an upward slope or grade (as in a road) downhill the downward slope of a hill steepa steep place (as on a hill) incline, side, slope an elevated geological formation |
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