单词 | mountainous |
释义 | mountainous (once / 1240 pages) adj WORD FAMILY mountainous: mountainousest, mountainously+/mountain: mountaineer, mountainous, mountains/mountaineer: mountaineering, mountaineers USAGE EXAMPLESIt was discovered in the mountainous Western Ghats region of south-western India. BBC(Dec 14, 2016) Now before dawn each day, mothers and daughters walk to the mountainous scrub to gather wood, which they turn into charcoal and sell. Washington Post(Dec 09, 2016) Homeowners here are mostly migrants from mountainous north India who work as government clerks or drivers and are investing heavily in their children’s English-language education. New York Times(Oct 12, 2016) 1adj containing many mountains Syn highland, upland used of high or hilly country 2adj having hills and crags Syn cragged, craggy, hilly rough, unsmooth having or caused by an irregular surface 3adj like a mountain in size and impressiveness mountainous waves a mountainous dark man Syn big, large above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent |
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