precipitous
英 [prɪ'sɪpɪtəs]
美[prɪ'sɪpɪtəs]
- adj. 险峻的；急躁的，鲁莽的
英英释意
- 1. 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"
- 2. characterized by precipices;
- "a precipitous bluff"
- 3. extremely steep;
- "an abrupt canyon"
- "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"
- "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"
- "a sharp drop"
