PRECIPITANT • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Precipitant

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

adjective

Precipitant adj.

Falling or rushing headlong; rushing swiftly, violently, or recklessly; moving precipitately. "They leave their little lives Above the clouds, precipitant to earth." "Should he return, that troop so blithe and bold, Precipitant in fear would wing their flight."

Unexpectedly or foolishly brought on or hastened; rashly hurried; hasty; sudden; reckless. "Precipitant rebellion."

See images of 'Precipitant'

Etymology of 'Precipitant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Precipitant" Quotes from Famous Books

... aspects of his marriage that he had not stopped to weigh in its precipitant consummation. The problem, pointed out by Rhoda, of his absence from Taou Yuen on cruise could not be solved with the facility he had taken for granted. It was as impossible to leave her happily here—he was aware of her growing impatience with ...

— Java Head • Joseph Hergesheimer

... end of her cigarette at the lizard and laughed at its precipitant flight. She had no desire to follow the example of her escort and sleep. She was much too happy to lose a minute of her enjoyment by wasting it in rest that she did not require. She was perfectly content and satisfied with herself and her outlook. She had not a care or a thought ...

— The Sheik - A Novel • E. M. Hull

Words linked to "Precipitant" : precipitance, precipitous, hasty, precipitancy, dimethylglyoxime, precipitate, agent