precipitousness
11precipitancy — noun the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning • Syn: ↑abruptness, ↑precipitateness, ↑precipitousness, ↑precipitance, ↑suddenness • Derivationally related forms: ↑sudden (for …
12precipitateness — noun the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning • Syn: ↑abruptness, ↑precipitousness, ↑precipitance, ↑precipitancy, ↑suddenness • Derivationally related forms: ↑sudden (for: ↑ …
13steepness — noun the property possessed by a slope that is very steep • Syn: ↑abruptness, ↑precipitousness • Ant: ↑gradualness (for: ↑abruptness) • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
14suddenness — noun the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑abruptness, ↑precipitateness, ↑precipitousness, ↑precipitance, ↑precipitancy • Derivationally related forms: ↑sudden, ↑ …
15precipitous — adjective Etymology: French précipiteux, from Middle French, from Latin precipitium precipice Date: 1646 1. precipitate 2 2. a. very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging in rise or fall < a precipitous slope > b. having precipitous sides < a… …
16fast — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English fæst; akin to Old High German festi firm, Old Norse fastr, Armenian hast Date: before 12th century 1. a. firmly fixed < roots fast in the ground > b. tightly shut < the drawers were fast > …
17Douglas, Taranaki — For the other locality in New Zealand called Douglas, see Douglas, Canterbury. Douglas …
18Clapotis — Incoming wave (red) reflected at the wall produces the outgoing wave (blue), both being overlaid resulting in the clapotis (black). In hydrodynamics, the clapotis (from French: lapping of water ) is a non breaking standing wave pattern, caused… …
19precipitous — precipitously, adv. precipitousness, n. /pri sip i teuhs/, adj. 1. of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock. 2. extremely or impassably steep: precipitous mountain trails. 3. precipitate. [1640 50; < obs. F… …
20precipice — noun a) A very steep cliff. I resolved to remove my tent from the place where it stood, which was just under the hanging precipice of the hill; and which, if it should be shaken again, would certainly fall upon my tent... b) The brink of a… …
