anabatic.

Moving uphill along a slope, especially a wind driven by daytime warming.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• anabatic wind
• anabatic flow

On the page

An anabatic wind carried the smell of the valley toward the ridge.

The glider rode the anabatic flow above the sunlit slope.

Usage notes

Primary category: environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a seasonal, material, ecological, or geographic relation; comparison requires a measurable or descriptive basis. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.