SLOPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sloping mean? 

• SLOPING (adjective)
  The adjective SLOPING has 2 senses:

1. having an oblique or slanted direction

2. having a slanting form or direction

  Familiarity information: SLOPING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLOPING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an oblique or slanted direction

Synonyms:

aslant; aslope; diagonal; slanted; slanting; sloped; sloping

Similar:

inclined (at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having a slanting form or direction

Context example:

a room with a sloping ceiling

Similar:

gradual ((of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt)

 Context examples 

Its most distinctive feature is its head, which is almost flat at the top, sloping evenly down to the end of the nose.

(Bull Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

It was, as I have said, a pit, with sharply-sloping walls and a level bottom about twenty feet across.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Located just south of Mars' equator, Arsia Mons is the southernmost member of a trio of broad, gently sloping shield volcanoes collectively known as Tharsis Montes.

(Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time, NASA)

He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of grizzled brown.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I should fancy that you could hardly wish a better place for a mill than the sloping field beyond. I am quite sure that no one will interfere with you there.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When they staggered to their feet once more, the whole keep had settled down upon one side, so that they could scarce keep their footing upon the sloping platform.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Tall, fine bust, sloping shoulders; long, graceful neck: olive complexion, dark and clear; noble features; eyes rather like Mr. Rochester's: large and black, and as brilliant as her jewels.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You must make a new garden at what is now the back of the house; which will be giving it the best aspect in the world, sloping to the south-east.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Cleveland was a spacious, modern-built house, situated on a sloping lawn.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The garden sloping to the road, the house standing in it, the green pales, and the laurel hedge, everything declared they were arriving.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)