precipitous meaning and definition

PRECIPITOUS adjective

Definition of precipitous (adjective)

1. 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, precipitant, precipitate
2. extremely steep
   • "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"
   • synonyms: abrupt, sharp