precipitate

precipitate is a 11-letter English word with 18 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 20 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.
2. adjective. Lacking due deliberation or care; hurried; said or done before the time; as, a precipitate measure.
3. adjective. Falling, flowing, or rushing, with steep descent; headlong.
4. adjective. Ending quickly in death; brief and fatal; as, a precipitate case of disease.
5. noun. An insoluble substance separated from a solution in a concrete state by the action of some reagent added to the solution, or of some force, such as heat or cold. The precipitate may fall to the bottom (whence the name), may be diffused through the solution, or may float at or near the surface.
6. transitive verb. To throw headlong; to cast down from a precipice or height.
7. transitive verb. To urge or press on with eager haste or violence; to cause to happen, or come to a crisis, suddenly or too soon; as, precipitate a journey, or a conflict.
8. transitive verb. To separate from a solution, or other medium, in the form of a precipitate; as, water precipitates camphor when in solution with alcohol.
9. intransitive verb. To dash or fall headlong.
10. intransitive verb. To hasten without preparation.
11. intransitive verb. To separate from a solution as a precipitate. See Precipitate, n.
12. noun. a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering
13. verb. separate as a fine suspension of solid particles
14. verb. hurl or throw violently

    "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below"

15. verb. bring about abruptly

    "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution"

16. verb. fall vertically, sharply, or headlong

    "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"

17. verb. fall from clouds

    "rain, snow and sleet were falling"

    "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"

    Synonyms: fall

18. adjective. done with very great haste and without due deliberation- Shakespeare- Arthur Geddes

    "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"

    "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"

    Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitous

Synonyms

fall, hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitous

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in precipitate:

peripatetic

Common word forms

precipitated, precipitates, precipitately, precipitating, precipitateness

Words from these letters

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