We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of precipitousness in English
Spanish
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.
2
On the north the steepness of the hill only allows of three.
3
He seemed not to observe the steepness and roughness of the trail.
4
The extreme steepness of succeeding hills bred galls under the heavy packs.
5
The steepness of the wall did not permit rests except on knobs.
Usage of precipitousness in English
1
Mrs. Landry rose with precipitousness, and the beautiful lady, very red, followed.
2
The knoll fell away in bushy precipitousness to the plain below.
3
Their great anxiety to trade for powder indicated their lack of that article and partly explained the precipitousness of their retreat.
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.'
Frequent collocations
Precipitousness through the time