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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Happening quickly and without warning: hurried, precipitant, precipitate, sudden. See FAST, SURPRISE. 2. Rudely unceremonious: blunt, brief, brusque, crusty, curt, gruff, short, short-spoken. See ATTITUDE. 3. So sharply inclined as to be almost perpendicular: bold, precipitous, sheer2, steep1. See HORIZONTAL.
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