Incline

Quick meaning: Incline is a verb meaning (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.

Meaning

(transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To slope.
2. A slope.
3. A portal of a subway tunnel.
4. (chiefly intransitive, chiefly passive voice) To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.

Example Sentences

To reach the building, we had to climb a steep incline.

He inclines to believe anything he reads in the newspapers.

The people following the coffin inclined their heads in grief.

Over the centuries the wind made the walls of the farmhouse incline.

Word Forms

• inclines
• inclining
• inclined

Synonyms for incline

Depending on context, synonyms include dispose, pitch, lean, run, side, ramp.

Antonyms for incline

Common opposites include indispose, disincline.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slope, lean, run, dispose, ramp, tend.

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