precipitately

1. 1.

   at breakneck speed

   “burst headlong through the gate”

   Synonymsheadlong

Questions about precipitately

What does precipitately mean?

precipitately means "at breakneck speed".

How many syllables are in precipitately?

precipitately has 6 syllables: pre-ci-pi-ta-te-ly. The stress falls on "ta".

What is another word for precipitately?

Close synonyms include headlong. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is precipitately a common word?

precipitately is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.