Synonyms for precipitation
prɪˌsɪp ɪˈteɪ ʃənpre·cip·i·ta·tion

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. precipitation

   Rashness applies to the actual rushing into danger without counting the cost; temerity denotes the needless exposure of oneself to peril which is or might be clearly seen to be such. Rashness is used chiefly of bodily acts, temerity often of mental or social matters; there may be a noble rashness, but temerity is always used in a bad sense. We say it is amazing that one should have had the temerity to make a statement which could be readily proved a falsehood, or to make an unworthy proposal to one sure to resent it; in such use temerity is often closely allied to hardihood, audacity, or presumption. Venturesomeness dallies on the edge of danger and experiments with it; foolhardiness rushes in for want of sense, heedlessness for want of attention, rashness for want of reflection, recklessness from disregard of consequences. Audacity, in the sense here considered, denotes a dashing and somewhat reckless courage, in defiance of conventionalities, or of other men's opinions, or of what would be deemed probable consequences; as, the audacity of a successful financier. Compare EFFRONTERY.

   Synonyms:
   audacity, foolhardiness, hardihood, hastiness, heedlessness, over-confidence, precipitancy, presumption, rashness, recklessness, temerity, venturesomeness

   Antonyms:
   care, caution, circumspection, cowardice, hesitation, timidity, wariness

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. precipitationnoun

   the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time

   "the storm brought several inches of precipitation"

   Synonyms:
   hurriedness, downfall, hastiness, hurry, haste

2. precipitationnoun

   the process of forming a chemical precipitate

   Synonyms:
   hurriedness, downfall, hastiness, hurry, haste

3. precipitation, downfallnoun

   the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)

   Synonyms:
   fall, ruination, ruin, downfall, hurriedness, haste, hurry, hastiness

4. precipitationnoun

   the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height

   Synonyms:
   hurriedness, downfall, hastiness, hurry, haste

5. precipitationnoun

   an unexpected acceleration or hastening

   "he is responsible for the precipitation of his own demise"

   Synonyms:
   hurriedness, downfall, hastiness, hurry, haste

6. haste, hastiness, hurry, hurriedness, precipitationnoun

   overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)

   "he soon regretted his haste"

   Synonyms:
   rushing, rush, downfall, hurriedness, haste, hurry, hastiness

Matched Categories

1. • Acceleration
   • Chemical Process
   • Drop
   • Indefinite Quantity
   • Speed

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. precipitationnoun

   Synonyms:
   haste, hurry, precipitance, flurry, precipitancy

2. precipitationnoun

   Synonyms:
   rashness, recklessness, thoughtlessness, heedlessness, foolhardiness, inconsiderateness, temerity, presumption

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "precipitation":

   rainfall, haste, rain, precipitating, rush, hastiness, deposition, wettest

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How to use precipitation in a sentence?

1. Sheriff Nieto:

   We caught a little bit of a break, the modeling changed from last night to this morning as we talked about, some of the precipitation we thought was going to be dumped into Monterey County has shifted south of us towards Paso Robles and into the Santa Barbara area.

2. Yucheng Wang:

   When the climate got wetter and the ice began to melt, it led to the formation of lakes, rivers, and marshes. The ecosystem changed and the biomass of the vegetation reduced and would not have been able to sustain the herds of mammoths, we have shown that climate change, specifically precipitation, directly drives the change in the vegetation -- humans had no impact on them at all based on our models.

3. Weather Prediction Center:

   The uncertainty lies in how much rainfall will be absorbed by the snowpack before there is significant release of that water into the rivers, it’s likely some of the( precipitation) will simply be absorbed into the many feet of snow at the highest elevations, but lower elevations, generally below 5,000 ft, appear most likely to not have the snowpack necessary to absorb the multiple inches of rainfall expected.

4. Alan Haynes:

   Our wettest year on record in California was in 1983, when we saw nearly twice the normal amount of precipitation. Even if this year has more rain than that, we wouldn't get rid of the drought entirely.

5. Kyle Thiem:

   Because the storms were incredibly shallow, that limited the growth of the parent supercell, which is why so little precipitation was falling, fully formed supercells have a much better ability to harness the low-level shear into the atmosphere in order to produce a tornado.