Precipitous vs Capricious - What's the difference?
precipitous | capricious |
Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain.
Headlong; as, precipitous fall.
Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts.
* 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma , National Geographic (March 2007), 46,
Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim
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As adjectives the difference between precipitous and capricious
is that precipitous is steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain while capricious is impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim.precipitous
English
(wikipedia precipitous)Adjective
(head)- ...humans have been responsible for a precipitous decline of elephants, from perhaps 300,000 in the early 1970s to some 10,000 today.
Synonyms
* (steep) brantcapricious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I almost died in a capricious winter storm.
- Stringent rulers are unlikely to act capriciously .
- The Mayor claimed that the action was reasonable, but in reality the action was arbitrary and capricious in nature.