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Adjective mountainous has 3 senses
- mountainous(s = adj.all) cragged, craggy, hilly - having hills and crags; "hilly terrain" Derived form noun mountain1
- mountainous(s = adj.all) Array - like a mountain in size and impressiveness; "mountainous waves"; "a mountainous dark man"
- mountainous(s = adj.all) Array - containing many mountains; Array Derived form noun mountain1
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mountainous, a. [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]
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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, weightyROGET THESAURUS
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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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