What is the meaning of precipitous?

adjective

  • Done with very great haste and without due deliberation.
    • usage: "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"
  • Extremely steep.
    • usage: "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"
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