Meaning of MOUNTAINOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'mawntnus
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- [adj] containing many mountains
- [adj] like a mountain in size and impressiveness; "mountainous waves"; "a mountainous dark man"
- [adj] having hills and crags; "hilly terrain"
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| | Synonyms: | | big, cragged, craggy, highland(a), hilly, large, rough, unsmooth, upland |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Moun"tain*ous\, a. [F. montagneux, L. montaniosus.]
1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous
country of the Swiss.
2. Inhabiting mountains. [Obs.] --Bacon.
3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk;
as, a mountainous heap. --Prior.
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| | Related Terms: | | abysmal, alpen, alpestrine, alpigene, alpine, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, Atlantean, awesome, boundless, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, cosmic, craggy, Cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, epic, extensive, formidable, galactic, Gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, Herculean, heroic, high, hilly, Homeric, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo, king-size, knobby, large, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous, monticuline, monumental, mountained, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound, rolling, sizable, spacious, staggering, steep, stupendous, subalpine, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, weighty |
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