precipitating | precipitation | precipitator | precipitin | precipitious | precipitous | precipitously | precipitousness | precis | precise | precisely

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective precipitous has 2 senses

• precipitous(s = adj.all) hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitate - done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
Derived form noun precipitousness₂

• precipitous(s = adj.all) abrupt, sharp - extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"
Derived forms noun precipice₁, noun precipitousness₁

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THESAURUS

precipitous

abrupt, accident-prone, acclivitous, arduous, bluff, bold, breakneck, breathless, careless, declivitous, desperate, devil-may-care, electrifying, furious, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, hotheaded, hurried, impetuous, impulsive, mad, nerve-shattering, orthodiagonal, orthogonal, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, panting, perpendicular, plumb, plunging, precipitant, precipitate, quick, rapid, rash, reckless, right-angle, right-angled, right-angular, rushing, sharp, sheer, shocking, sideling, slap-bang, slapdash, speedy, startling, steep, stickle, straight-up, straight-up-and-down, sudden, surprising, swift, unanticipated, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unpredicted, up-and-down, vertical, wanton, wild

ROGET THESAURUS

precipitous

Instantaneity

N instantaneity, instantaneousness, immediacy, suddenness, abruptness, moment, instant, second, minute, twinkling, trice, flash, breath, crack, jiffy, coup, burst, flash of lightning, stroke of time, epoch, time, time of day, time of night, hour, minute, very minute, very time, very hour, present time, right time, true time, exact correct time, instantaneous, momentary, sudden, immediate, instant, abrupt, discontinuous, precipitous, precipitant, precipitate, subitaneous, hasty, quick as thought, quick as lightning, quick as a flash, rapid as electricity, speedy, quick, fast, fleet, swift, lively, blitz, rapid (velocity), instantaneously, in no time, in less than no time, presto, subito, instanter, suddenly, at a stroke, like a shot, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, in the twinkling of an eye, in a trice, in one's tracks, right away, toute a l'heure, at one jump, in the same breath, per saltum, uno saltu, at once, all at once, plump, slap, at one fell swoop, at the same instant, immediately, extempore, on the moment, on the spot, on the spur of the moment, no sooner said than done, just then, slap-dash, touch and go, no sooner said than done.