About The Word Mountainous
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Mountainous
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What's The Definition Of Mountainous?
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Mountainous: big | cragged | craggy | highland(a) | hilly | large | rough | unsmooth | upland Related Terms | Find terms related to Mountainous: 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 See Also | Mountainous In Webster's Dictionary \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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