steep
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
steep
adj 1: having a sharp inclination; "the steep attic stairs";
"steep cliffs" [ant: {gradual}]
2: greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant
rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on
entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable
spending" [syn: {exorbitant}, {extortionate}, {outrageous},
{steep}, {unconscionable}, {usurious}]
3: of a slope; set at a high angle; "note the steep incline"; "a
steep roof sheds snow"
n 1: a steep place (as on a hill)
v 1: devote (oneself) fully to; "He immersed himself into his
studies" [syn: {steep}, {immerse}, {engulf}, {plunge},
{engross}, {absorb}, {soak up}]
2: let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse; "steep
the blossoms in oil"; "steep the fruit in alcohol" [syn:
{steep}, {infuse}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Steep \Steep\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Steeped} (st[=e]pt); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Steeping}.] [OE. stepen, probably fr. Icel. steypa
to cause to stoop, cast down, pour out, to cast metals,
causative of st[=u]pa to stoop; cf. Sw. st["o]pa to cast, to
steep, Dan. st["o]be, D. & G. stippen to steep, to dip. Cf.
{Stoop}, v. i.]
To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of
by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often
used figuratively.
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Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. --Shak.
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In refreshing dew to steep
The little, trembling flowers. --Wordsworth.
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The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin.
--Earle.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Steep \Steep\, a. [Compar. {Steeper} (-[~e]r); superl.
{Steepest}.] [OE. steep, step, AS. ste['a]p; akin to Icel.
steyp[eth]r steep, and st[=u]pa to stoop, Sw. stupa to fall,
to tilt; cf. OFries. stap high. Cf. {Stoop}, v. i., {Steep},
v. t., {Steeple}.]
1. Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon;
ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a
horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill
or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep
declivity; a steep barometric gradient.
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2. Difficult of access; not easily reached; lofty; elevated;
high. [Obs.] --Chapman.
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3. Excessive; as, a steep price. [Slang]
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Steep \Steep\, n.
A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any
elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of
the horizon; a precipice. --Dryden.
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We had on each side naked rocks and mountains broken
into a thousand irregular steeps and precipices.
--Addison.
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Bare steeps, where desolation stalks. --Wordsworth.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
brasilein \bra*sil"e*in\, {C16H12O5}, to which brazilwood owes
its dyeing properties.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] Brasque \Brasque\, n. [F.] (Metal.)
A paste made by mixing powdered charcoal, coal, or coke with
clay, molasses, tar, or other suitable substance. It is used
for lining hearths, crucibles, etc. Called also {steep}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
250 Moby Thesaurus words for "steep":
Herculean, Olympian, Olympian heights, a bit much, abandoned,
abrupt, abstruse, acme, aerial, aerial heights, airy, altitudinous,
apex, arduous, ascending, aspiring, bathe, besprinkle, bluff, bold,
boundless, breakneck, breathe, brew, brutal, bury, cliff, color,
colossal, complex, concentrate, costly, crag, critical, dear,
dear-bought, decoct, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult,
distill, dizzy heights, dominating, douche, douse, dredge, drench,
drouk, dye, egregious, elevated, elevation, eminence, eminent,
enormous, entincture, escarpment, essentialize, ether, ethereal,
exacting, exaggerated, exalted, excessive, exorbitant, expensive,
express, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, face, fancy,
fill, flavor, flush, formidable, gigantic, gluttonous, hairy, hard,
hard-earned, hard-fought, haughty, headlong, heaven, heavens,
height, heights, high, high-pitched, high-priced, high-reaching,
high-set, high-up, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, imbrue, imbue,
immerse, immoderate, impregnate, incontinent, infiltrate, infuse,
ingrain, inject, inoculate, inordinate, instill, intemperate,
intricate, inundate, invest, jawbreaking, knotted, knotty,
laborious, lave, leach, leaven, lift, lixiviate, lofty, luxurious,
macerate, marinate, mean, melt down, monstrous, monumental,
mounting, no picnic, not affordable, not easy, of great cost,
operose, orthodiagonal, orthogonal, out of bounds, out of sight,
outrageous, outtopping, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat,
overgrown, overlarge, overlooking, overmuch, overpriced,
overtopping, overweening, palisade, palisades, penetrate,
percolate, permeate, perpendicular, pervade, pickle, plumb,
plunging, precipice, precipitous, premium, press out, pricey,
prominent, raise, rapid, refine, render, rich, right-angle,
right-angled, right-angular, rigorous, rinse, rise, rising ground,
rough, rugged, saturate, scar, scarp, season, seethe,
set with thorns, severe, sharp, sheer, sky, soak, soaring, sodden,
sop, souse, spiny, spiring, stiff, straight-up,
straight-up-and-down, stratosphere, strenuous, sublime, submerge,
suffuse, sumptuous, superlative, supernal, temper, thorny,
ticklish, tincture, tinge, toilsome, too much, top, topless,
toplofty, topping, tough, towering, towery, transfuse, tricky,
unbridled, unconscionable, undue, unpayable, unreasonable,
unrestrained, up-and-down, uphill, uplifted, upreared, uprise,
vantage ground, vantage point, vertical, wall, wash, waterlog, wet,
wicked, wring, wring out, zenith
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