Definition of mountainous
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mountainously
adverb
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Examples of mountainous in a Sentence
the seemingly mountainous obstacles he had to overcome while growing up
Recent Examples of mountainous from the Web
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This is unfortunate — and not merely because the Supreme Court has erected a mountainous roadblock on the path to federal reforms.
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Reuters: Trump, who lost Virginia last year by 5 points to Democrat Hillary Clinton, did best in rural areas such as the counties along Virginia’s mountainous spine, less so in urban areas.
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The three drank apéritifs, hiked the mountainous Mediterranean region, and ate octopus every day.
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The developments came rapidly Wednesday afternoon – nearly five years to the day after Coleman and Boyle lost touch with their families while traveling in a mountainous region near the Afghan capital of Kabul.
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Painting the skulls [which occurred mostly in the mountainous regions of Austria, Switzerland and Germany] was one way to do this.
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The area is fairly mountainous, so it was well protected from the winds and received little damage.
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Even the leafy trees shading the shop feel more like tropical Southeast Asia than mountainous Yunnan province.
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Three diverse ecosystems—the Amazon rainforest, the coastal west, and the mountainous Andes—have given the region high levels of biodiversity.
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First Known Use of mountainous
14th century
mountainous Synonyms
Synonyms
astronomical (also astronomic), Brobdingnagian, bumper, colossal, cosmic (also cosmical), cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, galactic, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, gigantic, grand, herculean, heroic (also heroical), Himalayan, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, king-size (or king-sized), leviathan, mammoth, massive, mega, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, huge, oceanic, pharaonic, planetary, prodigious, super, super-duper, supersize, supersized, titanic, tremendous, vast, vasty, walloping, whacking, whoppingAntonyms
bantam, bitty, diminutive, infinitesimal, Lilliputian, little bitty, micro, microminiature, microscopic (also microscopical), midget, miniature, minuscule, minute, pocket, pygmy, teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, weeRelated Words
big, bulky, considerable, extensive, good, goodly, great, gross, handsome, hefty, hulking, largish, major, outsize (also outsized), overgrown, oversize (or oversized), sizable (or sizeable), substantial, tidy, voluminous; august, formidable, grandiose, imposing, lofty, majestic; cavernous, monolithic, overwhelming, staggering, stupendous, towering; boundless, immeasurable, infiniteNear Antonyms
little, mini, petite, pint-size (or pint-sized), puny, small, smallish, undersized (also undersize); dinky, dwarfish, half-pintMOUNTAINOUS Defined for English Language Learners
MOUNTAINOUS Defined for Kids
Definition of mountainous for Students
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: having many mountains
- mountainous country
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: like a mountain in size : huge
- a mountainous pile
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