precipitous

precipitous /pri'sipitəs/
  • tính từ
    • (thuộc) vách đứng, như vách đứng; dốc đứng, dốc ngược (đường...)
    • (từ hiếm,nghĩa hiếm), (như) precipitate

 dốc đứng
 dốc ngược

o   dốc đứng, dốc ngược


Xem thêm: hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, abrupt, sharp



precipitous

Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • done with very great haste and without due deliberation; hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant

    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

  • characterized by precipices

    a precipitous bluff

  • extremely steep; abrupt, sharp

    an abrupt canyon

    the precipitous rapids of the upper river

    the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings

    a sharp drop


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: abrupt hasty overhasty precipitant precipitate sharp