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precipitousadjective acting or done with excessive or careless speedsoon regretted our precipitous actions in international affairs cursory, drive-by, flying, gadarene, hasty, headlong, helter-skelter, hurried, overhasty, pell-mell, precipitate, rash, rushed breakneck, breathtakingheadstrong, heady, hotheaded, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, reckless, unadvisedquick, rapid, speedy, swifthorseback, impromptu, makeshift, offhand, offhanded, off-the-cuff, rush, slapdash, snap, spontaneous, spur-of-the-momentabrupt, sudden deliberate, unhurried, unrushed calculated, calculating, measuredcircumspect, foresighted, forethoughtfuldrawn-out, extended, long-term, prolongedfaltering, hesitant, hesitating, tentativedallying, dawdling, laggard, leisurely, poky(or pokey), shilly-shallying, slow having an incline approaching the perpendiculara precipitous ski slope that fully merits its triple diamond designation abrupt, bold, sheer, steep perpendicular, plumb, straight, verticalcraggy, hillocky, hilly, mountainous, scarpedangled, canted, cocked, heeled, inclined, listed, slanted, sloped, tilted, tipped easy gentle, gradual, moderate, softeven, flat, flush, horizontal, level, plane, smooth, unruffled, unwrinkled steep, abrupt, precipitous, sheer mean having an incline approaching the perpendicular.steep implies such sharpness of pitch that ascent or descent is very difficult.a steep hill a steep dive abrupt implies a sharper pitch and a sudden break in the level.a beach with an abrupt drop-off precipitous applies to an incline approaching the vertical.the river winds through a precipitous gorge sheer suggests an unbroken perpendicular expanse.sheer cliffs that daunted the climbers in 1612 |