mountainous

3 definitions found

mountainous - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mountainous \Moun"tain*ous\, a. [F. montagneux, L. montaniosus.]
     1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous
        country of the Swiss.
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     2. Inhabiting mountains. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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     3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk;
        as, a mountainous heap. --Prior.
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mountainous - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mountainous
      adj 1: having hills and crags; "hilly terrain" [syn: cragged,
             craggy, hilly, mountainous]
      2: like a mountain in size and impressiveness; "mountainous
         waves"; "a mountainous dark man"
      3: containing many mountains

mountainous - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, weighty