precipitous
Adjective
- 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”
- Synonyms
- hasty
- overhasty
- precipitate
- precipitant
- Similar to
- hurried
- Related
- abruptness
- precipitateness
- precipitousness
- precipitance
- precipitancy
- suddenness
- abruptness
- precipitateness
- precipitousness
- precipitance
- precipitancy
- suddenness
- abruptness
- precipitateness
- precipitousness
- precipitance
- precipitancy
- suddenness
- precipitate
- abruptness
- precipitateness
- precipitousness
- precipitance
- precipitancy
- suddenness
- haste
- hastiness
- hurry
- hurriedness
- precipitation
- haste
- hastiness
- hurry
- hurriedness
- precipitation
- Synonyms
- extremely steep; “an abrupt canyon”; “the precipitous rapids of the upper river”; “the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings”; “a sharp drop”
- Synonyms
- abrupt
- sharp
- Similar to
- steep
- Related
- abruptness
- precipitousness
- steepness
- precipice
- abruptness
- precipitousness
- steepness
- Synonyms
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