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List of meaning for precipitous

done rapidly without thinking

hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous(adj)

done with very great haste and without due deliberation

"hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"

abrupt, precipitous, sharp(adj)

extremely steep

"an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"

acting or done with excessive or careless speed

soon regretted our precipitous actions in international affairs

having an incline approaching the perpendicular

a precipitous ski slope that fully merits its triple diamond designation

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