What are the antonyms for PRECIPITOUS?
- deliberate, forethoughtful, calm, gradual, flush, unwrinkled, slow, drawn-out, unruffled, soft, even, foresighted, extended, slight, measured, calculating, easy, circumspect, dawdling, horizontal, prolonged, flat, smooth, kind, moderate, nice, hesitant, level, leisurely, gentle, tentative, long-term, hesitating, plane, laggard, shilly-shallying, faltering, calculated, low, poky.
Synonyms for PRECIPITOUS
- linear,
- scree,
- landform,
- mountainside,
- hasty,
- short,
- rectilinear,
- half-baked,
- pinnacle,
- sierra,
- non-stop,
- scarp,
- rise,
- bold,
- caldera,
- arduous,
- brow,
- lee,
- declivitous,
- abrupt,
- immediate,
- tall,
- sharp,
- vertical,
- palisade,
- in a row,
- impetuous,
- Butte,
- uplands,
- hilltop,
- undeviating,
- knee-high,
- hurried,
- cliffy,
- right now,
- peak,
- precipitous,
- quick,
- unlevel,
- drumlin,
- mid-ocean ridge,
- towering,
- Subito,
- clifflike,
- Esker,
- precipitate,
- elevation,
- straight-up-and-down,
- summit,
- ghat,
- hill,
- steeply,
- instantly,
- upland,
- the alps,
- premature,
- Orographic,
- mountainous,
- straight-up,
- hillside,
- ben,
- talus,
- perpendicular,
- waist-high,
- lineal,
- craggy,
- rectilineal,
- Asperous,
- rash,
- arête,
- hummock,
- incline,
- sudden,
- shoulder-high,
- crag,
- unexpected,
- slope,
- unsmooth,
- at once,
- chimney,
- knoll,
- mount,
- alpine,
- scraggiest,
- snow-capped,
- clifftop,
- pike,
- uncurled,
- Dizzying,
- shelf,
- on-the-spot,
- like an arrow,
- slag heap,
- ridge,
- fell,
- prerupt,
- wolds,
- snow line,
- promptly,
- dizzy,
- straight away,
- raised,
- study at abrupt,
- rock face,
- Sideling,
- mountain,
- hilly,
- unbent,
- mountaintop,
- early,
- escarpment,
- unanticipated,
- height,
- elevated,
- instantaneous,
- in line,
- cliff,
- mt,
- soar,
- collinear,
- precipice,
- sky-high,
- volcano,
- Rock-bound,
- mountains,
- foothill,
- highlands,
- straight,
- sheer,
- rolling,
- plateau,
- massif,
- straight up,
- undistorted,
- hillock,
- mesa,
- Downs,
- watershed,
- sand dune,
- mound,
- precipitant,
- scraggy,
- leeward,
- untimely,
- rockbound,
- overhasty,
- steep,
- pass,
- fast,
- spur,
- high,
- range,
- in a line.
Usage Examples for PRECIPITOUS
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The western interior was visible to a great distance bounded by low ranges; some of which seemed to have precipitous sides, like cliffs, towards the west. - "Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales" by Thomas Mitchell
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He strode down the precipitous path, and reached the house greatly exhausted, and his knees knocking under him. - "The Dead Lake and Other Tales" by Paul Heyse
