Your actions may be overly precipitous.
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Precipitous
//pɹɪˈsɪpɪtəs//
Synonyms for "precipitous" (90 found)
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Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (45)
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Translations
34 translations across 13 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀπότομος adj (steep, like a precipice)
Bulgarian
4 entries- много стръмен adj (steep, like a precipice)
- отвесен adj (steep, like a precipice)
- прибързан adj (hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate)
- стремителен adj (headlong)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 斷崖式 /断崖式 adj (steep, like a precipice)
- 陡峭 adj (steep, like a precipice)
Esperanto
1 entries- krutega adj (steep, like a precipice)
Finnish
3 entries- jyrkkä adj (steep, like a precipice)
- äkillinen adj (hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate)
- äkkijyrkkä adj (headlong)
French
4 entries- abrupt adj (steep, like a precipice)
- escarpé adj (steep, like a precipice)
- précipité adj (hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate)
- raide adj (steep, like a precipice)
German
4 entries- abrupt adj (steep, like a precipice)
- abschüssig adj (steep, like a precipice)
- jäh adj (steep, like a precipice)
- kopfüber adj (headlong)
Hungarian
1 entries- meredek adj (steep, like a precipice)
Latin
1 entries- praeceps adj (steep, like a precipice)
Māori
3 entries- taparere adj (steep, like a precipice)
- tāhekeheke adj (steep, like a precipice)
- tūparipari adj (steep, like a precipice)
Old English
1 entries- stealc adj (steep, like a precipice)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صارپ adj (steep, like a precipice)
Spanish
4 entries- de cabeza adj (headlong)
- escarpado adj (steep, like a precipice)
- precipitado adj (hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate)
- precipitoso adj (hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
In a moment the young fellows had dismounted, fastened their horses, and were ascending the precipitous slope which led up to the object which had excited their curiosity.
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On the top of the precipitous shore, looking out to sea, was a large castle.
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Sprightly little goatherds, whose heads are the heads of fauns, and whose half naked and ruddy bodies are often clad in skins, ramble over the precipitous hills with nimble herds able to crop a living from mere stone-piles; and the fauns, Pan-like, pipe to their goats strains Theocritus might have loved.
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