Mountainous - English meaning

adjective

Relating to high mountains.

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Alpine and subalpine habitats

noun

A plant native to mountain districts, often suitable for growing in rock gardens.

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A collection of alpines and dwarf bulbs

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of high mountains

adjective

Extremely large or great.

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A colossal amount of mail

adjective

Extremely large

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In the centre of the hall stood a colossal wooden statue, decorated in ivory and gold., they were a…

adjective

(of a landscape) having many crags.

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A craggy coastline

adjective

Having many crags

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A craggy coastline

adjective

Used to describe a man's face that is quite roughly formed and has loose skin but is also attractive

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A craggy face, craggy features

adjective

Very large in size, quantity, or extent.

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Enormous sums of money

adjective

Extremely large or great

Usage examples:

He ate an enormous helping of pasta., the wealthy will get enormous tax cuts under the proposal.

adjective

Extremely large

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An enormous car/house, he earns an enormous salary., i was absolutely enormous when i was pregnant.…

noun

A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the past history of a nation.

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Happily did he write epics according to ancient rule; no one was impressed.

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of an epic or epics.

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Our national epic poem beowulf

noun

A book or movie that is long and contains a lot of action, usually about a subject from the past

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The iliad is the most famous greek epic., an epic struggle to achieve equality for african americans

adjective

Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable.

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A formidable opponent

adjective

Strong and powerful, and therefore difficult to deal with if opposed to you

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There were formidable obstacles to reaching an early settlement of the dispute.

adjective

Causing you to have fear or respect for something or someone because that thing or person is large, powerful, or difficult

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A formidable obstacle/task, a formidable adversary/enemy/opponent, a formidable intellect, disappro…

noun

An imaginary or mythical being of human form but superhuman size.

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Along the north-west coast of britain, megalithic sites were commonly associated with mythical gian…

adjective

Of very great size or force; gigantic.

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Giant multinational corporations

noun

A person, either real or imaginary, who is extremely large and strong, or a very large or powerful organization

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He was a giant of a man, over six and a half feet tall., the merger makes them a giant in the publi…

adjective

Of very great size or extent; huge or enormous.

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A gigantic concrete tower

adjective

Extremely large

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A gigantic shopping center

adjective

Of an extent, amount, or intensity considerably above average.

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The article was of great interest

noun

An important or distinguished person.

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The beatles, bob dylan, all the greats

adverb

Another term for literae humaniores.

adjective

Requiring great strength or effort.

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A herculean task

adjective

Having or needing great strength or effort

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She had the herculean task of bringing up four children single-handedly.

adjective

Of great vertical extent.

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The top of a high mountain

noun

A high point, level, or figure.

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Commodity prices were at a rare high

adverb

At or to a considerable or specified height.

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The sculpture stood about five feet high

noun

An area of high or mountainous land.

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The highlands of madagascar

adjective

In or relating to an area with mountains or hills

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Much of central and eastern brazil is highland plateau., highland springs, the groom wore highland …

adjective

Having many hills.

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A remote hilly district

adjective

Having a lot of hills

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Hilly countryside, a hilly area

adjective

Extremely large; enormous.

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A huge area

adjective

Extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree.

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The cost of restoration has been immense

adjective

Extremely large; great in size or degree

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He inherited an immense fortune., did you see that guy? he was immense!, country music is immensely…

noun

A large extinct elephant of the pleistocene epoch, typically hairy with a sloping back and long curved tusks.

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Woolly mammoths, which are now extinct, lived from the pleistocene to the early holocene period fro…

adjective

Huge.

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A mammoth corporation

adjective

Extremely large

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Building the dam was a mammoth construction project.

adjective

Large and heavy or solid.

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A massive rampart of stone

noun

A group of young people from a particular area with a common interest in dance music.

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The bristol massive

adjective

Very large in size, amount, or degree

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A massive building, he took massive doses of vitamin c., she died of a massive heart attack.

adjective

Possessing great and impressive power or strength, especially because of size.

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Three mighty industrial countries

adverb

Extremely.

Usage examples:

My ears got cold mighty fast

adjective

Very large, powerful, or important

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In the next game they will face the mighty patriots., the mighty river po, they offered to raise sa…

adjective

Having the ugly or frightening appearance of a monster.

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Monstrous, bug-eyed fish

adjective

Very bad, esp. because too big

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After the flood she was faced with monstrous repair bills., monstrous deeds

adjective

Great in importance, extent, or size.

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It's been a monumental effort

adjective

Very big or very great

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Rebuilding the bridge proved to be a monumental job.

adjective

Dangerously high or steep.

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The track skirted a precipitous drop

adjective

Very steep, or falling a long way very fast

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Precipitous cliffs, new fads could result in a precipitous drop in sales.

adjective

If a reduction is precipitous, it happens very suddenly and is very big

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A precipitous decline/drop/fall the company has seen a precipitous decline in advertising revenue.,…

adjective

Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree.

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The stove consumed a prodigious amount of fuel

adjective

Extremely great in ability, amount, or strength

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Americans are the world’s most prodigious consumers., a prodigiously gifted artist

adjective

Consisting or full of rock or rocks.

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A rocky crag above the village

adjective

Difficult or uncertain

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Their season got off to a rocky start with three straight losses., a rocky path

adjective

Deeply shocking; astonishing.

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The staggering bills for maintenance and repair

verb

Walk or move unsteadily, as if about to fall.

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He staggered to his feet, swaying a little

adjective

(of a slope, flight of stairs, or angle) rising or falling sharply; almost perpendicular.

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She pushed the bike up the steep hill

noun

A steep mountain slope.

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Hair-raising steeps

verb

Soak (food or tea) in water or other liquid so as to extract its flavour or to soften it.

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The chillies are steeped in olive oil

adjective

Of exceptional strength, size, or power.

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A series of titanic explosions

adjective

Of titanium with a valency of four; of titanium(iv).

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It has been permitted to form a joint venture for the manufacture of synthetic rutyl and titanic di…

proper noun

A british passenger liner, the largest ship in the world when she was built and supposedly unsinkable, that struck an iceberg in the north atlantic on her maiden voyage in april 1912 and sank with the loss of 1,490 lives.

verb

(of a motor vehicle or boat) pull (another vehicle or boat) along with a rope, chain, or tow bar.

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A pickup van towing a trailer

noun

An act of towing a vehicle or boat.

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The cruiser got a tow from a warship after its engine failed

noun

The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp prepared for spinning.

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In this process, which is much faster than that using guillotine cutters, tow is dyed, finished, cu…

adjective

Very great in amount, scale, or intensity.

Usage examples:

Penny put in a tremendous amount of time

adjective

Great in amount, size, or degree; extremely large

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She is under tremendous pressure at work., a tremendous book/concert/athlete

noun

An area of high or hilly land.

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Conservation of areas of upland

adjective

An upland area of land is high up, such as on a hill or mountain

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The whole plateau comprises one vast upland plain.

adjective

Of very great extent or quantity; immense.

Usage examples:

A vast plain full of orchards

noun

An immense space.

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And up from the vast a murmuring passed as from a wood of pines.