slope
slope is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, adjective, adverb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
- intransitive verb. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
- adjective. Sloping.
- adverb. In a sloping manner.
- transitive verb. To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.
- intransitive verb. To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
- intransitive verb. To depart; to disappear suddenly.
- noun. the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal
"a five-degree gradient"
- noun. an elevated geological formation
"he climbed the steep slope"
"the house was built on the side of a mountain"
- verb. be at an angle
"The terrain sloped down"
Synonyms
gradient, incline, side, pitch
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in slope:
elops, lopes, olpes, poles, spole
Common word forms
sloped, sloper, slopes, slopely, sloping, slopeness
Words from these letters
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