precipitous
pri si pi tuhs
- s done with very great haste and without due deliberation
- s extremely steep
the precipitous rapids of the upper river
the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings
- Greed drove him to this precipitous fall from grace. He was one of the most popular politician in the country before he got embroiled in this controversy.
- That seems a precipitous judgment for a movie that came out a few months before the voting.
- By the second week of the year, diet searches begin a precipitous fall, dropping 32% within the first few days of the New Year, only to briefly recover in the summer months for .