HILLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hilly mean? 

• HILLY (adjective)
  The adjective HILLY has 1 sense:

1. having hills and crags

  Familiarity information: HILLY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HILLY (adjective)

Comparative: hillier   
Superlative: hilliest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having hills and crags

Synonyms:

cragged; craggy; hilly; mountainous

Context example:

hilly terrain

Similar:

rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)

Derivation:

hill (a local and well-defined elevation of the land)

hilliness (the quality of being hilly)

 Context examples 

There were the two wings of the building; there was the garden; there were the skirts of Lowood; there was the hilly horizon.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As they advanced the ground became rougher and hillier, for there were no farms nor houses in this country of the West, and the ground was untilled.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

At the close of the afternoon service we returned by an exposed and hilly road, where the bitter winter wind, blowing over a range of snowy summits to the north, almost flayed the skin from our faces.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)