Term Gallery logo

Meanings of precipitousness in English

Spanish
precipitación

The property possessed by a slope that is very steep.

      precipitación

      The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning.

            Synonyms
            Examples for "steepness"
            Examples for "steepness"
            1
            The slope of the volcano was in many places of great steepness.
            A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
            2
            On the north the steepness of the hill only allows of three.
            Wanderings in Wessex / An Exploration of the Southern Realm from...
            3
            He seemed not to observe the steepness and roughness of the trail.
            The Eagle's Heart
            4
            The extreme steepness of succeeding hills bred galls under the heavy packs.
            North of Fifty-Three
            5
            The steepness of the wall did not permit rests except on knobs.
            Climbing Magazine
            Usage of precipitousness in English
            1
            Mrs. Landry rose with precipitousness, and the beautiful lady, very red, followed.
            The Beautiful Lady
            2
            The knoll fell away in bushy precipitousness to the plain below.
            Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras / Being the Rand...
            3
            Their great anxiety to trade for powder indicated their lack of that article and partly explained the precipitousness of their retreat.
            A Canyon Voyage / The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition ...
            4
            There is a river there called the Kaoma, running into the lake, the sides of which are similar in precipitousness to the rocks before us.'
            Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World
            Translations for precipitousness
            Precipitousness through the time