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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Precipitous \Pre*cip"i*tous\, a. [L. praeceps, -cipitis: cf. OF.
   precipiteux. See {Precipice}.]
   1. Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or
      mountain.

   2. Headlong; as, precipitous fall.

   3. Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous
      attempts. --Sir T. Browne. ``Marian's low, precipitous
      `Hush!''' --Mrs. Browning. -- {Pre*cip"i*tous*ly}, adv. --
      {Pre*cip"i*tous*ness}, n.

资料来源 : WordNet®

precipitous
     adj 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" [syn: {hasty},
             {overhasty}, {precipitate}, {precipitant}]
     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" [syn: {abrupt}, {sharp}]