adj. 1 abrupt, steep, perpendicular, sheer, bluff, acclivitous, declivitous I cannot see how anyone can climb up the precipitous face of that crag 2 See precipitate, 5, above.
PRECIPITOUS
Meaning of PRECIPITOUS in English
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