Crossword clues for mountainous
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
highland \highland\ adj. of, located in, or characteristic of high or hilly country. Contrasted to lowland. [prenominal] [Narrower terms: alpestrine, subalpine ; {alpine; {mountain(prenominal) ; {mountainous ]
Syn: upland.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French montagneux, from Vulgar Latin *montaneosus "mountainous," from *montanea (see mountain).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having many mountains; rough (terrain); rocky. 2 Resembling a mountain, especially in size. 3 (context by extension of a problem or task English) Very difficult.
WordNet
Usage examples of "mountainous".
The anthropogony of the Bible is merely a genealogy of a swarm escaping from the human hive which settled on the mountainous slopes of Thibet between the summits of the Himalaya and the Caucasus.
After the clearing of the eastern border of the Transvaal by the movement of Pole-Carew along the railway line, and of Buller aided by Ian Hamilton in the mountainous country to the north of it, there were no operations of importance in this district.
Vesuvius, left the expressway at Castellammare, and piloted the car around the mountainous hairpins of the Sorrento peninsula.
And the setting for the lively picture was the deeply-indented bay, surrounded with quaintly pretty houses among vineyards and olive groves, which climbed terrace after terrace to a mountainous horse-shoe, hemming in the port.
He speeded up his car but when they arrived and climbed the mountainous flights of stairs he found no bent and damaged form as he had expected.
SCHWARTZ SET OFF ON AN EXPEDITION TO THE GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED THEREIN CHAPTER V HOW LITTLE GLUCK SET OFF ON AN EXPEDITION TO THE GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED THEREIN, WITH OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER CHAPTER I HOW THE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM OF THE BLACK BROTHERS WAS INTERFERED WITH BY SOUTHWEST WIND, ESQUIRE In a secluded and mountainous part of Stiria there was in old time a valley of the most surprising and luxuriant fertility.
And far out at sea, unspied and unknown monsters spouted mountainous columns of foam into the vaporous sky.
As the Ilyushin began its descent into Addis Ababa, Ram6n sat behind the Russian pilot on the ffight-deck so he had an uninterrupted view of the savage mountainous country ahead.
The wild and mountainous lands on the eastern side of the upper Adriatic Sea.
An Oscan-speaking region, it comprised mainly mountainous country behind Latium, and extended to the Adriatic adjacent to Apulia.
Certainly it must have been that just as he held his own growth in check, permitting only as much as needed to save his mountainous body from the ravages of the years, so he had accelerated the growth of this poor boy in so far as was possible to his anthroposophic knowledge.
Like all of Asia Minor, it was mountainous, but except for the massif of Mysian Olympus at Prusa, the Bithynian ranges were somewhat lower, rounder, less forbidding than the Taurus.
There is no land on earth which has produced such quaint and curious characters as the great mountainous regions of the South, and yet no country has produced nobler or brainier men.
Though Hertzog at Calvinia and De Lisle at Clanwilliam were only fifty miles apart, the intervening country is among the most broken and mountainous in South Africa.
Whilst Bruce Hamilton was operating so successfully in the Ermelo district, several British columns under Plumer, Spens, and Colville were stationed some fifty miles south to prevent the fugitives from getting away into the mountainous country which lies to the north of Wakkerstroom.