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precipitant meaning and definition
Definition and meaning of precipitant at MeaningMonkey.org. precipitant meaning and definition in the English Dictionary.PRECIPITANT noun
Definition of precipitant (noun)
- an agent that causes a precipitate to form
PRECIPITANT adjective
Definition of precipitant (adjective)
- 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"
- synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitous
Source: Princeton University Wordnet