3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mountainous \Moun"tain*ous\, adjective [F. montagneux, L. montaniosus.]
1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous
country of the Swiss.
2. Inhabiting mountains. [Obs.] --Bacon.
3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk;
as, a mountainous heap. --Prior.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mountainous
adjective
1: having hills and crags; "hilly terrain" [syn: {cragged}, {craggy},
{hilly}]
2: like a mountain in size and impressiveness; "mountainous
waves"; "a mountainous dark man"
3: containing many mountains
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "mountainous":
Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
Homeric, abysmal, alpen, alpestrine, alpigene, alpine,
amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky,
colossal, cosmic, craggy, elephantine, enormous, epic, extensive,
formidable, galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, high,
hilly, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo, king-size,
knobby, large, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous,
monticuline, monumental, mountained, outsize, overgrown,
prodigious, profound, rolling, sizable, spacious, staggering,
steep, stupendous, subalpine, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast,
voluminous, weighty
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