Word Meanings - PRECIPITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war. Clarendon. 2. Lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or done before the time; as, a precipitate measure. "The rapidity of our too precipitate course." Landor.

Additional info about word: PRECIPITATE

1. Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war. Clarendon. 2. Lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or done before the time; as, a precipitate measure. "The rapidity of our too precipitate course." Landor. 3. Falling, flowing, or rushing, with steep descent; headlong. Precipitate the furious torrent flows. Prior. 4. Ending quickly in death; brief and fatal; as, a precipitate case of disease. Arbuthnot.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRECIPITATE)

• Hasty
• Speedy
• rapid
• superficial
• hurried
• irascible
• impetuous
• reckless
• headlong
• crude
• incomplete
• undeveloped
• immature
• swift
• precipitate
• fiery
• passionate
• slight
• quick
• excitable
• rash
• cursory
• Plunge
• Dip
• dive
• douse
• duck
• submerge
• immerse
• sink
• overwhelm
• thrust under
• pitch headlong
• Premature
• unauthenticated
• untimely
• precocious
• too early
• unseasonable
• Rash
• Headstrong
• audacious
• hasty
• foolhardy
• careless
• adventurous
• thoughtless
• indiscreet
• venturesome
• overventuresome
• incautious
• unwary
• heedless
• Sediment
• Settlement
• lees
• dregs
• grounds
• refuse
• dross
• residuum

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRECIPITATE)

• Grant
• afford
• yield
• concede
• acquiesce
• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to PRECIPITATE)

• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• UNDERSAY
  To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• UNDERTAPSTER
  Assistant to a tapster.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• UNDERDELVE
  To delve under.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• DUNDERHEAD
  A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.