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
But his placid, broad-hipped, female torsos, mountainously solid, yet so graceful that they seem about to move, have been the envy and despair of fellow sculptors all over the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her head was swathed mountainously in shawls; her wild, black, lambent eyes had the look of distant contemplation.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
