Definition for Precipitous:

• Like a precipice: very steep: hasty: rash.

Synonyms for Precipitous:

• adj.

  •abrupt (adjective)
  • most precipitate,
  • un-ceremonious,
  • quick,
  • un ceremonious,
  • un anticipated,
  • un-anticipated,
  • un foreseen,
  • most unanticipated,
  • un-expected,
  • sur prising,
  • un expected,
  • more unanticipated,
  • sur-prising,
  • un-foreseen,
  • quickest.
  •all (adjective)
  • precipitous.
  •craggy (adjective)
  • scraggy,
  • rockbound,
  • unlevel,
  • scraggiest,
  • unsmooth,
  • Asperous,
  • Rock-bound.
  •early (adjective)
  • premature,
  • early,
  • untimely,
  • half-baked.
  •hurried (adjective)
  • hectic,
  • headlong,
  • most subitaneous,
  • head-long,
  • Subitaneous,
  • head long,
  • more subitaneous.
  •sheer (adjective)
  • more sideling,
  • most sideling.
  •steep (adjective)
  • most prerupt,
  • more straight up,
  • more prerupt,
  • most lifted,
  • more straightup,
  • more straight-up,
  • more lifted,
  • most straight-up,
  • most straight up,
  • most straightup,
  • most declivitous,
  • straightup,
  • more declivitous.
  •steep, falling sharply (adjective)
  • dizzy,
  • perpendicular,
  • arduous.
  •straight (adjective)
  • collinear,
  • in line,
  • non-stop,
  • undeviating,
  • rectilineal,
  • uncurled,
  • undistorted,
  • in a line,
  • in a row,
  • unbent,
  • linear,
  • rectilinear,
  • like an arrow,
  • lineal.
  •sudden (adjective)
  • instantaneous,
  • flasher,
  • Subito,
  • unexpected,
  • immediate.

• n.

  •
  • suddenly,
  • instantly,
  • right now,
  • at once,
  • straight away,
  • fast,
  • promptly,
  • on-the-spot.
  •
  • level.
  •abrupt (noun)
  • study at abrupt.
  •clifflike (noun)
  • clifflike.
  •cliffy (noun)
  • cliffy.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • shoulder-high,
  • knee-high,
  • waist-high,
  • sky-high.
  •
  • tall,
  • towering.
  •
  • elevated,
  • raised.
  •
  • soar.
  •
  • bold.
  •
  • short.
  •
  • high.
  •precipitate
  • rash.

Paraphrases for Precipitous:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    hasty, hurried.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    Precipitated, rapid, fast-paced, quick, expeditious.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    precipitate, steep, sudden, over-hasty, overhasty, Dizzying, premature, abrupt, rash, sharp, ill-considered, breathtaking, headlong, dramatic.

Antonyms for Precipitous:

• adj.

  • steep, falling sharply
    nice, calm, kind, gradual.
  • Other antonyms:
    drawn-out, low, moderate, calculated, slight, laggard, hesitating, easy, prolonged, flat, soft, level, forethoughtful, unruffled, poky, tentative, long-term, faltering, circumspect, even, extended, deliberate, dawdling, flush, gentle, shilly-shallying, smooth, slow, plane, unwrinkled, foresighted, hesitant, leisurely, measured, calculating, horizontal.

Precipitous Sentence Examples:

• To his right rose a precipitous rock wall surmounted by a fringe of thick shrubbery.

• Within the two horns of that beautiful bay, and protected by the fortress on the precipitous rock, lay the Spanish fleet at anchor.