precipitous English

Meaning precipitous meaning

What does precipitous mean?

precipitous

— adjective (= abrupt, sharp) extremely steep an abrupt canyon the precipitous rapids of the upper river the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings a sharp drop

— adjective (= hasty, overhasty, precipitate) done with very great haste and without due deliberation hasty marriage seldom proveth well — Shakespeare hasty makeshifts take the place of planning — Arthur Geddes rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king

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steep

abrupt

sheer

high

sudden

hasty

sharp

rugged

rash

precipitate

precipitant

overhasty

lofty

craggy

vertical

unscheduled

unexpected

towering

soaring

sloping

sharply sticking out

rush

rude

rocky

risky

radical

perpendicular

jutting upward

jagged

instantaneous

inclining

impulsive

imprudent

hurriedly

high and steep

helter-skelter

headlong

fulminant

festinate

erect

desperately

crumbling

cragged

cliffy

caving

caved

bungling

bluffy

aslope

acute

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States Quality Shape Horizontal

Leaning, sloping

• What words refer to how much something is leaning or sloping?
  angle slope (n) inclination pitch grade gradient steep precipitous gradual (rise)