Hyphenation of precipitously

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word precipitously? This word can be hyphenated and contains 5 syllables as shown below.

pre-cip-i-tous-ly

Definitions of precipitously:

1.	Very suddenly and to a great degree Conditions that precipitously increase the birthrate Prices rose sharply
2.	Abruptly In a precipitous manner The mountains rose precipitously from the shore

Synonyms of precipitously:

adv	sharply

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