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Meaning of mountainous in English:

mountainous

Pronunciation /ˈmaʊntɪnəs/

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adjective

  • 1(of a region) having many mountains.

    ‘In general, mountainous regions with their steep slopes and deep valleys are eroded fastest.’
    • ‘Traditional alpine plants come from the mountainous regions of the world.’
    • ‘Nepal is a mostly mountainous region made up of many small villages.’
    • ‘The school is in a village in Auvergne, a rural and mountainous region in France.’
    • ‘The mountainous region around the small Corsican town of Bastilyica breeds a hardy, proud people.’
    • ‘It proposes setting up mobile teams to provide specialist medical services in remote mountainous regions.’
    • ‘Many of the communities in this beautiful mountainous region are desperately poor.’
    • ‘In India, they can only be found today in the mountainous regions of Kashmir and Ladakh.’
    • ‘Poor communication and transport in the remote and mountainous region also hampered operations.’
    • ‘The soils in this mountainous region of Portugal are shallow and stony.’
    • ‘The southern part of the province is mountainous with most villages situated at the foot of the mountains.’
    • ‘Pakistan controls a thin slice of the valley in the west and a large tract of mountainous land in the north.’
    • ‘Their course includes two of the highest roads in the world, so it will be a double challenge to cope with the mountainous terrain and the altitude.’
    • ‘The mountainous county has become a natural habitat for boars and owls, yet crops there have also been ruined by them.’
    • ‘Victims were forced to live in sanatoriums on small islands or deep in mountainous hinterlands.’
    • ‘This time the Swindon-born aviator hopes to smash an altitude record in a balloon over mountainous terrain.’
    • ‘In the background is a landscape of forests amid mountainous terrain.’
    • ‘The militants attack Indian forces almost daily in the mountainous province.’
    • ‘The army, they say, lacked sufficient combat readiness to fight in mountainous terrain.’
    • ‘The road traverses sandy and stony desert and mountainous terrain.’
    • ‘Since then, the mountainous county has been prone to mudflows and landslides triggered by torrential rains.’
    • ‘Galicia is a mountainous land of ever-present rain and mists and lush greenery.’
    • ‘Almost all the land is mountainous and high above sea level.’
    • ‘The island, mountainous and very pretty, features huge banana plantations.’
    hilly, craggy, rocky, alpine, high, steep, precipitous
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  • 2Very large; huge.

    ‘struggling under mountainous debts’
    • ‘Many very young people find themselves saddled with mountainous debts.’
    • ‘It is famous for its mountainous debt and its stupendous sales growth.’
    • ‘The government, meanwhile, is burdened with a debt to rich creditors so mountainous it can simply never be repaid.’
    • ‘It was a massive building lined with silver and jade, a mountainous structure glimmering in the sun.’
    huge, enormous, gigantic, massive, very big, very large, great, giant, colossal, mammoth, vast, immense, tremendous, mighty, formidable, staggering, monumental, Herculean, epic, prodigious, monstrous, titanic, towering, king-sized, king-size, gargantuan, substantial
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