Synonyms for precipitate
- adjective
- verb
- noun
Most common
rash impetuous reckless hot-headed hasty premature precipitous
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Rash — with a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong
rash, impetuous, reckless, hot-headed, impulsive, desperate, devil-may-care, precipitant, headstrong, harum-scarum, heedless, heady, brash
2. Hasty — headlong; falling steeply or vertically
hasty, premature, headlong, hurried, untimely, dashing, overhasty
3. Precipitous — performed very rapidly or abruptly
precipitous, abrupt, sudden dated, subitaneous dated
Other
Verb
1. Throw down — to throw an object or person from a great height
throw down, plunge, throw, hurl, cast, tumble, launch, whip, fling, project, pitch, toss, hurtle formal dated
2. Hasten — to make something happen suddenly and quickly
hasten, accelerate, advance, expedite, hurry, speed, quicken
Noun
Definitions
- adj. 1
headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
- adj. 2
With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
- v. 1
To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
it precipitated their success
- n. 1
A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- precipitates → sediments, triggers, speed-ups, deposits…
- Past participle
- precipitated
e.g. precipitated → plunged, thrun, hurled, tumbled…
Example sentences
- hasty Don't draw a hasty conclusion from what you see now.
- precipitous Your actions may be overly precipitous.
- brent Brent is an American, but he speaks Japanese as if it were his mother tongue.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| precipitate | falling | |
| precipitant | falling | |
| hasty | steady | |
| overhasty | steady | |
| precipitous | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- fall1, cast1, whip1, toss1, rash1, lees1, hurl1
- 5 letters
- speed1, throw1, pitch1, hurry2, brent1, hasty2, fling1, brash1, heady2
- 6 letters
- launch1, sudden2, settle2, plunge1, abrupt2, tumble2, hasten2, hurtle2
- 7 letters
- project2, advance2, grounds1, trigger2, deposit3, dashing2, hurried2, quicken2
- 8 letters
- reckless2, sediment3, untimely3, expedite3, headlong2, heedless
- 9 letters
- desperate2, premature3, impulsive3, impetuous3, overhasty
- 10 letters
- accelerate4, headstrong2
- 11 letters
- precipitous4, precipitant, subitaneous
- 13 letters
- precipitative
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hurry2 = 2 syllables).