sloping
verb1
Gerund, Participle, Present present participle and gerund of slope
2
in a sloping manner
Syntactically adverbial
- the road cut through the fields sloping
sloping
adjUK /ˈsləʊpɪŋ/ · US /ˈsloʊpɪŋ/
1
Having a slope.
- a sloping roof
- The beefarm on her sloping meadows, the sweet / Exacting spaces spinning honey; / Under the elms and the sycamores / The light leaves cherish many flowers, / The light air under the boughs threaded / With the vivid bees who return1993, Peter Redgrove, “The Mountain”, in The Laborators, Taxus Press, →ISBN, page 27:
- Synonyms
- declivitous
- Derived terms
- downsloping, nonsloping, slopingly, slopingness, unsloping, upsloping