Synonyms for precipitous
prɪˈsɪp ɪ təspre·cip·i·tous

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1. precipitous

   High is used of simple elevation; steep is said only of an incline where the vertical measurement is sufficiently great in proportion to the horizontal to make it difficult of ascent. Steep is relative; an ascent of 100 feet to the mile on a railway is a steep grade; a rise of 500 feet to the mile makes a steep wagon-road; a roof is steep when it makes with the horizontal line an angle of more than 45°. A high mountain may be climbed by a winding road nowhere steep, while a little hill may be accessible only by a steep path. A sharp ascent or descent is one that makes a sudden, decided angle with the plane from which it starts; a sheer ascent or descent is perpendicular, or nearly so; precipitous applies to that which is of the nature of a precipice, and is used especially of a descent; abrupt is as if broken sharply off, and applies to either acclivity or declivity. Compare HIGH.

   Synonyms:
   abrupt, high, sharp, sheer, steep

   Antonyms:
   easy, flat, gentle, gradual, horizontal, level, low, slight

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1. precipitous

   Synonyms:
   steep, headlong, abrupt, sheer, perpendicular, beetling, rash, dangerous

   Antonyms:
   shallow, graduated, inclined, undulating

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1. hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitousadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   overhasty, headlong, abrupt, sharp, hasty, precipitate, precipitant

   Antonyms:
   gradual, unhurried

2. abrupt, precipitous, sharpadjective

   extremely steep

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

   Synonyms:
   abrupt, overhasty, needlelike, sharp, incisive, knifelike, precipitate, crisp, sharp-worded, keen, disconnected, precipitant, discriminating, tart, acuate, astute, acute, shrill, hasty, penetrating, piercing, shrewd, penetrative

   Antonyms:
   gradual, unhurried

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1. precipitousadjective

   Synonyms:
   steep, abrupt

2. precipitousadjective

   Synonyms:
   hasty, rash, heady, headlong, precipitate, reckless, indiscreet

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1. List of paraphrases for "precipitous":

   hasty, precipitate, precipitated, over-hasty, hurried, overhasty, dizzying, sudden, steep

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1. David Kostin:

   The precipitous decline in cash balances has coincided with a sharp increase in corporate leverage.

2. Louis Portella Mbuyu:

   The bombings have provoked alarm as well as forced and precipitous displacement of the population, again this Wednesday, there were some bombings not far from Kinkala, in the village of Soumouna.

3. Rochelle Walensky:

   I do think in places that we are seeing this really steep incline, that we may well see also a precipitous decline, but we're also a much bigger country than South Africa.

4. John Aylieff:

   We know it's a very precipitous decline into severe acute malnutrition in these areas once the food runs out and that's why we are so concerned, if the food runs out in May and June ... it (malnutrition) is going to be off the scale.

5. Macan Nia:

   China opened this week (after the Lunar New Year holiday)and there wasn't any precipitous selling, so that gave reassurance to global investors, valuations were much more attractive than what they were at the beginning of the year and you have seen long-term investors strategically buy companies that they think have been thrown out with the bathwater.