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# precipitous

adjective

«precipitous» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Precipitous means very steep, so that it is almost straight up or down. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/precipitous/#m1)

### In the lessons

describes a rock, path or shore that is steep and dangerous to climb

### Examples

- The path was precipitous and full of loose stones. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/precipitous/#x1)
- They climbed the precipitous rock very slowly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/precipitous/#x2)
- A castle stood on the precipitous cliffs above the sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/precipitous/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «precipitous» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/precipitous/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«precipitous» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/precipitous.html) on Mova free.