precipitous

1. 1.

   done with very great haste and without due deliberation

   “hasty marriage seldom proveth well”

   “hasty makeshifts take the place of planning”

   “rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion”

   “wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king”

   Synonymshastyoverhastyprecipitateprecipitant

   Similarhurried
2. 2.

   extremely steep

   “an abrupt canyon”

   “the precipitous rapids of the upper river”

   “the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings”

   “a sharp drop”

   Synonymsabruptsharp

   Similarsteep

Questions about precipitous

What does precipitous mean?

precipitous means "done with very great haste and without due deliberation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in precipitous?

precipitous has 4 syllables: pre-cip-i-tous. The stress falls on "cip". In IPA it is /pɹɪˈsɪpɪtəs/.

What is another word for precipitous?

Close synonyms include hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, abrupt. 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 precipitous a common word?

precipitous is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.