English search results for: precipitous

#1

adjective

Definitions:

  1. abrupt, sudden
  2. hasty
  3. precipitous, steep
  4. rash
  5. uncompromising, haughty, aloof
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

adjective

Definitions:

  1. head first, headlong
  2. steep, precipitous
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#3

adjective

Definitions:

  1. abrupt, curt, brusque
  2. cut off, severed
  3. restricted
  4. steep, sheer, precipitous
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4

adjective

Definitions:

  1. abrupt, curt, brusque
  2. cut off, severed
  3. restricted
  4. steep, sheer, precipitous
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#5

adjective

Definitions:

  1. broken
  2. craggy
  3. steep, precipitous
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#6

adjective

Definitions:

  1. abrupt, precipitous
  2. clipped, staccato
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#7

adjective

Definitions:

  1. erect, perpendicular, upright, standing
  2. excited, eager
  3. steep, precipitous
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis, C.S., “Elementary Latin Dictionary”, 1891
#8

adjective

Definitions:

  1. erect, perpendicular, upright, standing
  2. excited, eager
  3. steep, precipitous
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis, C.S., “Elementary Latin Dictionary”, 1891
#9

adjective

Definitions:

  1. broken (off) around
  2. precipitous
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)