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Textual thesaurus for "precipitous"

(adj) sharp, abrupt

extremely steep

an abrupt canyon; the precipitous rapids of the upper river; the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings; a sharp drop


(adj) hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitate

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