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Adjective: precipitous  pri'si-pi-tus
  1. Done with very great haste and without due deliberation
    - hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant
     
  2. Extremely steep
    "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"
    - abrupt, sharp

See also: hurried, precipice, precipitously, precipitousness, steep

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