precipitous

  • (s) 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
    overhasty, precipitant, precipitate, hasty,
  • (s) extremely steep
    • an abrupt canyon
    • the precipitous rapids of the upper river
    • the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings
    • a sharp drop
    abrupt, sharp,

Synonyms

overhasty precipitant precipitate hasty abrupt sharp

Words of close approximity

precipitously precipitousness