steep
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- sheer, abrupt, precipitous
- high, exorbitant, extortionate, extreme, overpriced, unreasonable
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(Informal)
[verb]
Synonyms:
- soak, drench, immerse, macerate, marinate (Cookery), moisten, souse, submerge
- saturate, fill, imbue, infuse, permeate, pervade, suffuse

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Contrasted words: easy, gentle, gradual, moderate, shelfy, shelving, shelvy
Related Words: elevated, lifted, raised, steepish, high, lofty, prerupt, perpendicular, straight-up, breakneck

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. steep¹ S3 /stiːp/ adjective (comparative steeper, superlative steepest)
[Word Family: verb: steep, steepen; noun: steepness; adverb: steeply; adjective: steep]
[Language: Old English; Origin: steap 'high, steep, deep']

1. a road, hill etc that is steep slopes at a high angle:
The road became rocky and steep.
a steep climb to the top

2. steep prices, charges etc are unusually expensive Antonym : low:
steep rents

3. involving a big increase or decrease Synonym : sharp:
steep cuts in benefits
steep increase/rise
a steep increase in house prices
steep decrease/drop
a steep drop in orders
—steeply adverb
—steepness noun [uncountable]

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. steep² verb [intransitive and transitive]
[Word Family: verb: steep, steepen; noun: steepness; adverb: steeply; adjective: steep]
[Date: 1300-1400; Origin: From an unrecorded Old English stiepan]

1. be steeped in history/tradition/politics etc to have a lot of a particular quality:
a town steeped in history

2. to put food in a liquid and leave it there, so that it becomes soft or has the same taste as the liquid, or so that it gives the liquid its taste:
Leave the tea bag to steep.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

steep
adj.
VERBS be, look, seem | become, get
ADV. extremely, impossibly, incredibly, really, terribly, very an incredibly steep hill
increasingly | fairly, pretty, quite, rather, relatively | deceptively The terrain is often deceptively steep (= steeper than you expect).

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

steep

a steep hill
The car careered down the steep hill.
a steep slope
Coffee was grown on the steep slopes.
a steep bank
He scrambled down the steep bank.
a steep path/road
She stood at the top of the steep path leading down to the beach.
steep stairs
Martha led the way up the very steep stairs.
the steep sides of something
The steep sides of the valley were clothed in dense green forest.
a steep gradient formal (=a steep slope – used especially when talking about how steep something is)
The Snowdon Mountain Railway has the steepest gradient of any locomotive track in Britain.
a steep climb
A steep climb brought us to a wide rocky plateau.
a steep descent (=a steep journey, slope, or path downwards)
the steep descent into the beautiful Farndale Valley

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