precipitous
adjective
of the nature of or characterized by precipices.
precipitousness
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a word derived from
precipitous.
Example Sentences
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The precipitousness of the affair had taken her breath away and driven all thought in mad rout from her mind.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
But it is often possible to ascertain from a distance, if the cliff can be got relieved against the sky, the approximate degree of its precipitousness.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
There is a stock story they tell of the Arrow Lakes, and which appears intended to convey to the simple tourist a graphic idea of the precipitousness of their rocky walls.
From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
With characteristic precipitousness Flame jumped to her feet.
From Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
There is a river there called the Kaoma, running into the lake, the sides of which are similar in precipitousness to the rocks before us.'
From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Ignatius Donnelly
