Synonyms of the word

precipitous

• adj. Steep, like a precipice.
• adj. Headlong.
• adj. Hasty; rash; quick; sudden.

abrupt

• adj. (obsolete, rare) Broken away (from restraint).
• adj. Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
• adj. Curt in manner; brusque; rude; uncivil; impolite.
• adj. Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
• adj. (obsolete) Broken off.
• adj. Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
• adj. (botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To tear off or asunder.
• v. To interrupt suddenly.
• n. (poetic) Something which is abrupt; an abyss.

clifflike

• adj. Resembling a cliff or some aspect of one; high and steep.

cliffy

• adj. Abounding in cliffs.

hasty

• adj. Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick.

hurried

• adj.  Done in a hurry; rushed.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of hurry.

overhasty

• adj. Too hasty.

precipitant

• adj. That falls headlong, or causes a headlong fall.
• adj. Rash or impulsive.
• adj. Sudden or unexpected.
• adj. (chemistry) That causes precipitation.
• n. A substance that forms a precipitate when added to a solution.

precipitate

• v. (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
• v. (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
• v. (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
• v. (intransitive, chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
• v. (intransitive, meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet,…
• v. (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
• adj. headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
• adj. Very steep; precipitous.
• adj. With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
• adj. Moving with excessive speed or haste.
• adj. Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
• n. A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
• n. (chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

sharp

• adj. Able to cut easily.
• adj. (colloquial) Intelligent.
• adj. Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded.
• adj. (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
• adj. (music) Higher in pitch than required.
• adj. Having an intense, acrid flavour.
• adj. Sudden and intense.
• adj. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
• adj. (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
• adj. Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
• adj. Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
• adj. (colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
• adj. Observant; alert; acute.
• adj. Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
• adj. Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
• adj. (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
• adj. (chess) Tactical; risky.
• adj. Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
• adj. Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
• adj. (obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
• adj. Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
• adj. (phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
• adv. To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
• adv. (not comparable) Exactly.
• adv. (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
• n. (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff…
• n. (music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed…
• n. (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
• n. (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
• n. (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
• n. A sharp tool or weapon.
• n. (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
• n. (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
• n. A dishonest person; a cheater.
• n. Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
• n. A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
• n. (in the plural) middlings.
• n. (slang, dated) An expert.
• n. A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
• v. (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
• v. To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.

steep

• adj. Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
• adj. (informal) expensive.
• adj. (obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
• adj. (of the rake of a ship's mast, or a car's windshield) resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To soak an item (or to be soaked) in liquid in order to gradually add or remove…
• v. (intransitive) To imbue with something.
• n. A liquid used in a steeping process.
• n. A rennet bag.