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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. having hills and crags;
- Example: "hilly terrain"
[syn: cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous]

2. like a mountain in size and impressiveness;
- Example: "mountainous waves"
- Example: "a mountainous dark man"

3. containing many mountains;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mountainous \Moun"tain*ous\, a. [F. montagneux, L. montaniosus.] 1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. [1913 Webster] 2. Inhabiting mountains. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mountainous adj 1: having hills and crags; "hilly terrain" [syn: cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous] 2: like a mountain in size and impressiveness; "mountainous waves"; "a mountainous dark man" 3: containing many mountains
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

66 Moby Thesaurus words for "mountainous": Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, alpen, alpestrine, alpigene, alpine, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, craggy, elephantine, enormous, epic, extensive, formidable, galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, high, hilly, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo, king-size, knobby, large, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monticuline, monumental, mountained, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound, rolling, sizable, spacious, staggering, steep, stupendous, subalpine, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, weighty