Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: mountainous
IPA transcription: [m'aʊntənəs]
Pronunciations of mountainous
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous
    Meaning: having hills and crags; "hilly terrain"
  • Synonyms: mountainous
    Meaning: like a mountain in size and impressiveness; "mountainous waves"; "a mountainous dark man"
  • Synonyms: mountainous
    Meaning: containing many mountains
Usage examples
  • It is in one of the valleys in the submarine mountainous region that this shoal of thousands of bleak lies.
  • So this Antiochus got together fifty thousand footmen, and five thousand horsemen, and fourscore elephants, and marched through Judea into the mountainous parts.
  • Some hasty individual has put forth a statement to the effect that poets can only be bred in a mountainous country, where they could lift up their eyes to the hills.
  • Accordingly, he sent both foot-men and horsemen to level the road, which was mountainous and rocky, not without difficulty to be traveled over by footmen, but absolutely impracticable for horsemen.
  • But, on the third day as he was despairing he caught sight of an island steep and mountainous; so he swam for it and landing, walked on inland, where he rested a day and a Night, feeding on the growth of the ground.
  • He was so enthralled that he received absent-mindedly, and without gratitude, the mountainous bull's-eye passed to him from Ginger, and only gave a half-hearted smile when a well-aimed pellet from Henry's hand sent one of the prophetess's cherries swinging high in the air.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Transport in Laos, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Elfin woods warbler, License CC BY-SA 4.0