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mountainous

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Adjective
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moun=tain=ous
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1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

mountainousa. [F. montagneux, L. montaniosus.].
  •  Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Inhabiting mountains.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap.  Prior.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mountainous, adj.
1 (of a region) having many mountains.
2 huge.

THESAURUS

mountainous

Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, alpen, alpestrine, alpigene, alpine, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, craggy, elephantine, enormous, epic, extensive, formidable, galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, high, hilly, 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

ROGET THESAURUS

mountainous

Height

N height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch, loftiness, sublimity, tallness, stature, procerity, prominence, colossus, giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap, cape, headland, foreland, promontory, ridge, hog's back, dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down, moor, moorland, Alp, uplands, highlands, heights, knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump, knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole, steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough, escarpment, edge, ledge, brae, dizzy height, tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola, skyscraper, pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast, ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, altimetry, batophobia, satellite, spy-in-the-sky, high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic, Patagonian, towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens), elevated, upper, highest, high reaching, insessorial, perching, upland, moorland, hilly, knobby, mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching, aerial, overhanging, incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed, prominent, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky, on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead, airwind, upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom, e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto.


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