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# precipitous

«precipitous» in Mova's school dictionary: **very steep, so that it is almost straight up or down** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/precipitous/#x1)
- They climbed the precipitous rock very slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/precipitous/#x2)
- A castle stood on the precipitous cliffs above the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/precipitous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «precipitous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/precipitous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.