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3. snow, rain, drizzle, sleet, pour, Chiefly Dial, mizzle, mist.
-adj. 4. headlong, hurried, rushed, hasty; rapid, meteoric, quick, expeditious, speedy, swift, fleet; pressing, pushing, urgent.
5. abrupt, sudden, unexpected, at the spur of the moment, without warning, unannounced, unforeseen, unanticipated; prompt, instant, instantaneous, immediate.
6. unduly quick, rash, hasty; reckless, careless, heedless, thoughtless, pell-mell, helter-skelter, harum-scarum, head over heels; brash, incautious, injudicious, ill-advised, indiscreet, unwary, foolish; impetuous, impulsive, unrestrained, ungoverned, uncontrolled, unchecked, unbridled; feverish, impatient, frantic, impassioned; madcap, madbrained, foolhardy, daredev il, breakneck, adventurous, hot-headed, harebrained, blindfolded; volatile, flighty, frivolous, erratic, fickle, unreliable, irresponsible; wild, giddy, dashing, ever-confident, rampant, quixotic, punch-drunk; death-defying, devil-may-care, dangerous, ruinous, perilous. -n. 1. snow, rain, drizzle, sleet, downpour, cloudburst, deluge, ice storm, blizzard.
precipitately, adv. hastily, quickly, speedily, hurriedly, headlong; abruptly, suddenly, unexpectedly; prematurely, inopportunely, too soon, without notice or warning, on the spur of the moment, like a bolt from the blue, like a thief in the night; incautiously, unadvisedly, foolishly, unwarily, impetuously, impulsively, impatiently; rashly, recklessly, carelessly, heedlessly, thoughtlessly; slapdash, at half cock, pell-mell, harum-scarum, helter-skelter, head over heels; posthaste, Archaic. amain, at full speed, at full gallop, tantivy, in double-quick time, by leaps and bounds, full tilt, full pelt, Inf. lickety-split.
precipitation, n. 1. headlong fall, plunge, nosedive, dive, fall; casting headlong, projection, thrust, pitch, fling, heave, discharge.
2. acceleration, quickening, pushing, advancing, hastening; stimulation, arousing, triggering, rousing, animation, viviflcation; instigation, motivation, inspiration, exhortation, excitation, provocation, inciting; pressing, prodding, shoving, jogging, moving, driving on, urging on, egging on, goading, whipping, flogging; boosting, prompting, thrusting, impelling; expedition, facilitation.
3. abruptness, suddenness, haste, rush, hurry; hustle, bustle, dash, scurry, scramble, helter-skelter, hurry-scurry, pell-mell, harum-scarum.
4. impetuosity, rashness, recklessness, foolhardiness; prematurity, untimeliness, precocity, inopportuneness, inopportunity, inexpedience; impulsiveness, unrestraint, carelessness, heedlessness, thoughtlessness, imprudence, incautiousness; folly, gamble, leap in the dark, bungle, blunder, plunge, blind bargain; audacity, temerity, overconfidence, presumption.
5. Metereol. condensation, rainfall, rain, dewfall, dew, hail, snow, sleet, shower, drizzle; fog, mist, mizzle; downpour, cloudburst, deluge, blizzard, ice storm.
precipitous, adj. 1. steep, sheer, abrupt, perpendicular, bluff; acclivitous, ascending, uphill, rising; declivitous, downhill, descending, declining, falling away; cliffy, craggy.
2. hasty, hurried, rash. See - precipitate (defs. 4-6).
prlcis, n. 1. summary, epitome, synopsis, abstract, compendium, digest, conspectus; condensation, abridgment, reduction, compression, abbreviation; analysis, recapitulation; r6sum6, brief; outline, Fr. aper-gu, sketch, review, syllabus, prospectus; docket, bulletin, minute; extracts, fragments, cuttings, analects, clippings, citations.
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