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ADJECTIVE (2)

1. done with very great haste and without due deliberation;
- Example: "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare
- Example: "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes
- Example: "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"
- Example: "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
[syn: hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous]

2. extremely steep;
- Example: "an abrupt canyon"
- Example: "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"
- Example: "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"
- Example: "a sharp drop"
[syn: abrupt, precipitous, sharp]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Precipitous \Pre*cip"i*tous\, a. [L. praeceps, -cipitis: cf. OF.
   precipiteux. See Precipice.]
   1. Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or
      mountain.
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   2. Headlong; as, precipitous fall.
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   3. Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous
      attempts. --Sir T. Browne. "Marian's low, precipitous
      `Hush!'" --Mrs. Browning.
      [1913 Webster] -- Pre*cip"i*tous*ly, adv. --
      Pre*cip"i*tous*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

precipitous
    adj 1: 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" [syn: hasty,
           overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous]
    2: extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids
       of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese
       paintings"; "a sharp drop" [syn: abrupt, precipitous,
       sharp]