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Definition of mountainous in English: mountainousadjective ˈmaʊntɪnəsˈmaʊntənəs 1(of a region) having many mountains. Example sentencesExamples - The mountainous county has become a natural habitat for boars and owls, yet crops there have also been ruined by them.
- The army, they say, lacked sufficient combat readiness to fight in mountainous terrain.
- Nepal is a mostly mountainous region made up of many small villages.
- The soils in this mountainous region of Portugal are shallow and stony.
- It proposes setting up mobile teams to provide specialist medical services in remote mountainous regions.
- This time the Swindon-born aviator hopes to smash an altitude record in a balloon over mountainous terrain.
- The mountainous region around the small Corsican town of Bastilyica breeds a hardy, proud people.
- The island, mountainous and very pretty, features huge banana plantations.
- The militants attack Indian forces almost daily in the mountainous province.
- The southern part of the province is mountainous with most villages situated at the foot of the mountains.
- Almost all the land is mountainous and high above sea level.
- In the background is a landscape of forests amid mountainous terrain.
- Victims were forced to live in sanatoriums on small islands or deep in mountainous hinterlands.
- In India, they can only be found today in the mountainous regions of Kashmir and Ladakh.
- Galicia is a mountainous land of ever-present rain and mists and lush greenery.
- Since then, the mountainous county has been prone to mudflows and landslides triggered by torrential rains.
- Traditional alpine plants come from the mountainous regions of the world.
- Many of the communities in this beautiful mountainous region are desperately poor.
- Poor communication and transport in the remote and mountainous region also hampered operations.
- Pakistan controls a thin slice of the valley in the west and a large tract of mountainous land in the north.
- The school is in a village in Auvergne, a rural and mountainous region in France.
- The road traverses sandy and stony desert and mountainous terrain.
- In general, mountainous regions with their steep slopes and deep valleys are eroded fastest.
- Their course includes two of the highest roads in the world, so it will be a double challenge to cope with the mountainous terrain and the altitude.
Synonyms hilly, craggy, rocky, alpine, high, steep, precipitous upland, highland 2Very large; huge. struggling under mountainous debts Example sentencesExamples - It is famous for its mountainous debt and its stupendous sales growth.
- The government, meanwhile, is burdened with a debt to rich creditors so mountainous it can simply never be repaid.
- Many very young people find themselves saddled with mountainous debts.
- It was a massive building lined with silver and jade, a mountainous structure glimmering in the sun.
Synonyms huge, enormous, gigantic, massive, very big, very large, great, giant, colossal, mammoth, vast, immense, tremendous, mighty, formidable, staggering, monumental, Herculean, epic, prodigious, monstrous, titanic, towering, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan, substantial informal mega, monster, whopping, whopping great, thumping, thumping great, humongous, jumbo, hulking, astronomical, astronomic British informal whacking, whacking great, ginormous
Derivatives adverb Deficits and the public debt have piled up mountainously since then, and few people care, least of all conservative Republicans. Example sentencesExamples - First Andrews delivered a flawed and mountainously complex piece of legislation, then he was ambushed by the unions.
- And on the horizon are two wildly different, mountainously challenging roles.
- Trains of swells traveling in the same direction but at different speeds will pass through one another; when their crests, troughs, and lengths happen to coincide they reinforce each other, combining their energies to form unusually large waves that tower mountainously for a few minutes then subside.
- The film is set in Manayacuna, a remote village hidden in the rugged, windblown, mountainously scenic Peruvian hinterland.
- The first time I came here, I overheard a conversation in the ladies' room, among a group of women trying to comfort a their mountainously tall friend about her boyfriend's recent incarceration.
Definition of mountainous in US English: mountainousadjectiveˈmaʊntənəsˈmountənəs 1(of a region) having many mountains. Example sentencesExamples - Pakistan controls a thin slice of the valley in the west and a large tract of mountainous land in the north.
- Many of the communities in this beautiful mountainous region are desperately poor.
- The island, mountainous and very pretty, features huge banana plantations.
- This time the Swindon-born aviator hopes to smash an altitude record in a balloon over mountainous terrain.
- In the background is a landscape of forests amid mountainous terrain.
- The mountainous region around the small Corsican town of Bastilyica breeds a hardy, proud people.
- Victims were forced to live in sanatoriums on small islands or deep in mountainous hinterlands.
- It proposes setting up mobile teams to provide specialist medical services in remote mountainous regions.
- Poor communication and transport in the remote and mountainous region also hampered operations.
- Their course includes two of the highest roads in the world, so it will be a double challenge to cope with the mountainous terrain and the altitude.
- Galicia is a mountainous land of ever-present rain and mists and lush greenery.
- The mountainous county has become a natural habitat for boars and owls, yet crops there have also been ruined by them.
- The militants attack Indian forces almost daily in the mountainous province.
- The southern part of the province is mountainous with most villages situated at the foot of the mountains.
- Since then, the mountainous county has been prone to mudflows and landslides triggered by torrential rains.
- In general, mountainous regions with their steep slopes and deep valleys are eroded fastest.
- The road traverses sandy and stony desert and mountainous terrain.
- The army, they say, lacked sufficient combat readiness to fight in mountainous terrain.
- Traditional alpine plants come from the mountainous regions of the world.
- In India, they can only be found today in the mountainous regions of Kashmir and Ladakh.
- Almost all the land is mountainous and high above sea level.
- Nepal is a mostly mountainous region made up of many small villages.
- The school is in a village in Auvergne, a rural and mountainous region in France.
- The soils in this mountainous region of Portugal are shallow and stony.
Synonyms hilly, craggy, rocky, alpine, high, steep, precipitous - 1.1 Huge.
struggling under mountainous debts Example sentencesExamples - The government, meanwhile, is burdened with a debt to rich creditors so mountainous it can simply never be repaid.
- It is famous for its mountainous debt and its stupendous sales growth.
- It was a massive building lined with silver and jade, a mountainous structure glimmering in the sun.
- Many very young people find themselves saddled with mountainous debts.
Synonyms huge, enormous, gigantic, massive, very big, very large, great, giant, colossal, mammoth, vast, immense, tremendous, mighty, formidable, staggering, monumental, herculean, epic, prodigious, monstrous, titanic, towering, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan, substantial
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