Word Meanings - HILLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country. "Hilly steep." Dryden. 2. Lofty; as, hilly empire. Beau. & Fl.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HILLY)

• Steep
• Abrupt
• precipitous
• elevated
• inaccessible
• hilly
• craggy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HILLY)

• Air
• dry
• ventilate
• fan
• sun
• aridity
• exsiccate

Related words: (words related to HILLY)

• ARIDITY
  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
• VENTILATE
  brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
• STEEP
  Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
• STEEPLE
  A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
• EXSICCATE
  To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.
• STEEPLY
  In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
• ABRUPTNESS
  1. The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness. 2. Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.
• STEEP-DOWN
  Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.
• PRECIPITOUS
  1. Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain. 2. Headlong; as, precipitous fall. 3. Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts. Sir T. Browne. "Marian's low, precipitous `Hush!'" Mrs. Browning.
• ELEVATOR
  One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as: A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. A cage or platform and the hoisting
• CRAGGY
  Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain. "The craggy ledge." Tennyson.
• STEEPLE-CROWNED
  1. Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building. 2. Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne.
• STEEPEN
  To become steep or steeper. As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. H. Miller.
• STEEPER
  A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.
• ELEVATED
  Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts. Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.
• STEEPNESS
  1. Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof. 2. Height; loftiness. Chapman.
• STEEPINESS
  Steepness. Howell.
• ELEVATORY
  Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces.
• ABRUPTION
  A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. Woodward.
• STEEPY
  Steep; precipitous. No more, my goats, shall I belong you climb The steepy cliffs, or crop the flow'ry thyme. Dryden.
• CHILLY
  Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.
• PHILLYREA
  A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and breading a fruit resembling that of the olive.
• PHILLYGENIN
  A pearly crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phillyrin.
• RELEVATION
  A raising or lifting up.
• SCRAGGY
  1. Rough with irregular points; scragged. "A scraggy rock." J. Philips. 2. Lean and rough; scragged. "His sinewy, scraggy neck." Sir W. Scott.