acclivity
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 9
/əˈklɪv.ə.ti/
Definition of acclivity
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.
“how gaily vineyards and olives alternately chequer the acclivities”
“she would walk […] as far as to the point where the acclivity from the valley began its first steep ascent to the outer world.”
“Just below it leaned a tottering crag that would have toppled, starting an avalanche on an acclivity where no sliding mass could stop.”
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Etymology
First attested in 1614. From Latin acclīvitās, from acclīvis (“ascending”), from ad + clīvus (“slope”).
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