| Definitions of 'precipitous' |
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1. (adj) hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous
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"
2. (adj) abrupt, precipitous, sharp
extremely steep
"an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"
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| Definitions of 'precipitous' |
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1. (adj) precipitous
steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain
2. (adj) precipitous
headlong; as, precipitous fall
3. (adj) precipitous
hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts
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