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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Resembling a precipice; extremely steep. See Synonyms at steep1.
  2. adj. Having several precipices: a precipitous bluff.
  3. adj. Usage Problem Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate: "The change has included a precipitous collapse of Communist authority” ( New York Times). See Usage Note at precipitate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Headlong; descending rapidly, or rushing onward.
  2. Steep; like a precipice; consisting of precipices: as, precipitous cliffs.
  3. Hasty; rash; precipitate.
  4. Hastily appearing or passing; sudden.
  5. Synonyms and See. precipitate, a.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain.
  2. adj. Headlong; as, precipitous fall.
  3. adj. Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Steep, like a precipice.
  2. adj. Headlong.
  3. adj. Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. done with very great haste and without due deliberation
  2. adj. extremely steep

Etymologies

  1. Probably from obsolete precipitious, from Latin praecipitium, precipice; see precipice. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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