precipitous

Adjective
  1. Done with very great haste and without due deliberation (synset 301273978)
    "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
    similar to: hurried - moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste
    same as: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitate
  2. Extremely steep (synset 301148636)
    "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"
    similar to: steep - having a sharp inclination
    same as: abrupt, sharp

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