Synonyms of precipitous

Adjective

1. hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous, hurried (vs. unhurried)

usage: done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"

2. abrupt, precipitous, sharp, steep (vs. gradual)

usage: extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"

Definition and meaning of precipitous (Dictionary)