Synonyms of the word

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.

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.

absorb

• v. (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To engulf, as in water; to swallow up.
• v. (transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically…
• v. (transitive, physics, chemistry) To take in energy and convert it, as.
• v. (transitive) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully.
• v. (transitive) To occupy or consume time.
• v. (transitive) Assimilate mentally.
• v. (transitive, business) To assume or pay for as part of a commercial transaction.
• v. (transitive) To defray the costs.
• v. (transitive) To accept or purchase in quantity.

bluff

• n. An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate; braggadocio.
• n. (poker) An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than they actually do.
• n. (US, dated) The card game poker.
• n. One who bluffs; a bluffer.
• v. (poker) To make a bluff; to give the impression that one's hand is stronger than it is.
• v. (by analogy) To frighten or deter with a false show of strength or confidence; to give a false impression…
• v. To take advantage by bluffing.
• n. A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad…
• n. (Canadian Prairies) A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.
• adj. Having a broad, flattened front.
• adj. Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.
• adj. Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.
• adj. Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque.

bold

• n. (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
• adj. Courageous, daring.
• adj. (typography, of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
• adj. Presumptuous.
• adj. (Ireland) naughty, insolent, badly-behaved.
• adj. Full-bodied.
• adj. (Philippine English) naked, pornographic.
• v. (transitive) To make (a font or some text) bold.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make bold or daring.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become bold.

center

• n. The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
• n. The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
• n. The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
• n. (geometry) The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
• n. (geometry) The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates…
• n. A place where some function or activity occurs.
• n. A topic that is particularly important in a given context.
• n. (basketball) The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
• n. (ice hockey) The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the…
• n. (American football, Canadian football) The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
• n. (netball) A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
• n. (soccer) A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
• n. (rugby) One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside…
• n. (architecture) A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position…
• n. (engineering) One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about…
• n. (engineering) A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point…
• n. (politics) The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
• adj. Of, at, or related to a center.
• v. (transitive) To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
• v. (transitive) To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway…
• v. (transitive) To give (something) a central basis.
• v. (intransitive) To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
• v. (engineering) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

centre

• n. (British spelling, Canadian, Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand) Alternative spelling of…
• v. (British spelling, Canadian, Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand) Alternative spelling of…

concentrate

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather…
• v. To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting…
• v. To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
• v. (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
• n. A substance that is in a condensed form.

declension

• n. (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective…
• n. (grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.

declination

• n. At a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.
• n. At a given point, the angle between the line connecting this point with the geographical center of the…
• n. A refusal.
• n. (grammar) Declension.
• n. (archaic) The act or state of bending downward; inclination.
• n. (archaic) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay;…
• n. (archaic) Deviation.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

declivity

• n. (geomorphology) the downward slope of a hill.
• n. a downward bend in a path.

descent

• n. An instance of descending.
• n. A way down.
• n. A sloping passage or incline.
• n. Lineage or hereditary derivation.
• n. A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
• n. (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).

downslope

• adj. in a direction down a slope.
• adv. down a slope.
• n. a descent or declivity.

engross

• v. (transitive, now law) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized…
• v. (transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity…
• v. (transitive) To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially…
• v. (transitive) To completely engage the attention of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
• v. To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
• v. (obsolete) To amass.

engulf

• v. (transitive) To overwhelm.
• v. (transitive) To surround; to cover.

exorbitant

• adj. exceeding proper limits; extravagant; excessive or unduly high.

extortionate

• adj. of, related to or typifying extortion.
• adj. greatly exceeding what is reasonable or moderate; exorbitant.

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

focus

• n. (countable, optics) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
• n. (countable, geometry) A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.
• n. (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
• n. (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic…
• n. (uncountable) Concentration of attention.
• n. (countable, seismology) The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions (underneath…
• n. (computing, graphical user interface) The indicator of the currently active element in a user interface.
• n. (linguistics) The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.
• v. (transitive) To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.
• v. (transitive) To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the…
• v. (transitive, followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention.
• v. (intransitive) To concentrate one’s attention.
• v. (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus to (a visual element), so…

heavy

• adj. (of a physical object) Having great weight.
• adj. (of a topic) Serious, somber.
• adj. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
• adj. (Britain, slang, dated) Good.
• adj. (dated, late 1960s, 1970s, US) Profound.
• adj. (of a rate of flow) High, great.
• adj. (slang) Armed.
• adj. (music) Louder, more distorted.
• adj. (of weather) Hot and humid.
• adj. (of a person) Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
• adj. (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
• adj. Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
• adj. Laden to a great extent.
• adj. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with…
• adj. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
• adj. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
• adj. Not raised or leavened.
• adj. Having much body or strength; said of wines or spirits.
• adj. (obsolete) With child; pregnant.
• adv. heavily.
• adv. (India, colloquial) very.
• n. A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
• n. (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
• n. (aviation) A large multi-engined aircraft.
• v. (often with "up") To make heavier.
• v. To sadden.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) To use power and/or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments…
• adj. Having the heaves.

high

• adj. Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
• adj. Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
• adj. Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
• adj. Elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in rank, station, or character.
• adj. Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
• adj. Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality…
• adj. (in several set phrases) Remote in distance or time.
• adj. (in several set phrases) Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing…
• adj. Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
• adj. (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.
• adj. Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haugty, boastful, proud.
• adj. (of a body of water) With tall waves.
• adj. Large, great (in quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
• adj. (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations…
• adj. (phonetics) Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
• adj. (card games) Greater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.
• adj. (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
• adj. (slang) Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly (until the early 20th century)…
• adj. (nautical, of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
• adv. In or to an elevated position.
• adv. In or at a great value.
• adv. In a pitch of great frequency.
• n. A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
• n. A drug that gives such a high.
• n. (informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
• n. The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
• n. An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.
• n. (card games) The highest card dealt or drawn.
• v. (obsolete) To rise.
• n. (obsolete) Thought; intention; determination; purpose.
• v. To hie; to hasten.

imbue

• v. (transitive) To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
• v. In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by…

immerse

• v. (transitive) To put under the surface of a liquid; to dunk.
• v. (transitive) To involve deeply.
• v. (mathematics) Map into an immersion.
• adj. (obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.

immoderate

• adj. Not moderate; excessive.

infuse

• v. (transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
• v. (transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
• v. (transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
• v. (transitive) To instill as a quality.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo infusion.
• v. (transitive) To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.

outrageous

• adj. Violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.
• adj. (now rare) Fierce, violent.
• adj. Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate.
• adj. Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative.

perpendicular

• adj. (geometry) At or forming a right angle (to).
• n. (geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
• n. A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.

plunge

• n. the act of plunging or submerging.
• n. a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
• n. (dated) A swimming pool.
• n. (figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
• n. (slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
• n. (obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or…
• v. (transitive) To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion.
• v. (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
• v. (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower.

pore

• n. A tiny opening in the skin.
• n. By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a…
• v. to study meticulously; to go over again and again.
• v. to meditate or reflect in a steady way.

precipitous

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

rivet

• n. A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and…
• n. (figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.
• n. (obsolete) A light kind of footman's armour (back-formation from almain-rivet).
• v. (transitive) To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.
• v. (transitive) To install rivets.
• v. (transitive) To command the attention of.

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.

sheer

• adj. (textiles) Very thin or transparent.
• adj. (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
• adj. (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
• adj. Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
• adj. Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
• adv. (archaic) Clean; quite; at once.
• n. (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
• n. (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
• v. (chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course.
• v. (obsolete) To shear.

soak

• v. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
• v. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
• v. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
• v. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up).
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To take money from.
• v. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
• v. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
• v. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
• n. An immersion in water etc.
• n. (slang, Britain) A drunkard.
• n. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.

steepish

• adj. Somewhat steep.

unconscionable

• adj. Not conscionable; unscrupulous and lacking principles or conscience.
• adj. Excessive, imprudent or unreasonable.

usurious

• adj. Of or pertaining to usury.
• adj. Exorbitant.

vertical

• adj. Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular…
• adj. In a two dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis oriented normal (perpendicular,…
• adj. (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
• adj. (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
• n. A vertex or zenith.
• n. A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
• n. An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
• n. A vertical component of a structure.
• n. (marketing) A vertical market.