Synonyms for mountainous
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
2. Huge
large, huge, big, gargantuan, prodigious, elephantine, immense, gigantic, mammoth, spacious, bulky, monstrous, colossal, stupendous, voluminous, humongous informal, monumental
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Having many mountains; characterized by mountains; of the nature of a mountain; rough (terrain); rocky.
- adj. 2
Resembling a mountain, especially in size; huge; towering.
Related words
- Word family
- mountain
Example sentences
- alpine In Chamonix we have wonderful alpine mountaineering.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| mountainous | falling | |
| alpine | steady | |
| mountainlike | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- big1
- 4 letters
- huge1
- 5 letters
- large1, bulky2, hilly2
- 6 letters
- alpine2, craggy2
- 7 letters
- immense2, mammoth2, cragged
- 8 letters
- gigantic3, spacious2, colossal3
- 9 letters
- monstrous2, humongous3
- 10 letters
- monumental4, prodigious3, stupendous3, voluminous4, gargantuan4
- 11 letters
- elephantine4
- 12 letters
- mountainlike
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bulky2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- montagneux
- Italiano
- montagnoso
- Deutsch
- Bergisch