mountainous
adjective
abounding in mountains.
mountainously
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a word derived from
mountainous.
Example Sentences
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Rod McLachlan is a mountainously depressive Gordon Brown.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2015
And from a bank’s perspective, the typical freshman is not a particularly enticing loan candidate unless the bank can charge mountainously high interest rates or get the government to back the debt.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2014
Maw Kettle was a mountainously fat woman in a very dirty housedress.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before the War 'our country,' rising mountainously on both sides of the higher reaches of the river Adige, was one of the most nearly autonomous regions in the Austrian Empire.
From Time Magazine Archive
They came down from heights that rose mountainously.
From The Man in the Twilight by Ridgwell Cullum
