Thesaurus / precipitance
other words for precipitance
MOST RELEVANT
- alacrity
- briskness
- bustle
- carelessness
- celerity
- dash
- dispatch
- drive
- expedition
- expeditiousness
- fleetness
- flurry
- foolhardiness
- hastiness
- heedlessness
- hurriedness
- hustle
- impatience
- impetuosity
- incautiousness
- nimbleness
- pace
- precipitancy
- precipitateness
- precipitation
- prematureness
- press
- promptitude
- promptness
- quickness
- rapidity
- rapidness
- rashness
- recklessness
- rush
- scamper
- scramble
- scurry
- scuttle
- swiftness
- urgency
- velocity
- hurly-burly
- hustling
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Caravan bounded to his feet with such precipitance that his chair fell over against the wall.
MAUPASSANT ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES (180), COMPLETEGUY DE MAUPASSANT
Caravan bounded to his feet with such precipitance that his chair rolled over against the chair.
THE WORKS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT, VOLUME IV (OF 8)GUY DE MAUPASSANT
That does not mean, and has nothing to do with, 'proud precipitance of soul,' nor haste in forming pregnant resolves.
The rudeness of fortune towards the King was forgotten in the precipitance of the council.
His fiery and enthusiastic soul leapt to its call; but with none of the headlong precipitance that would have been its ruin.
KOSCIUSZKOMONICA MARY GARDNER
There is nothing forbidding about the precipitance of its cliffs and summits.
THE ALPSMARTIN CONWAY
She knew that there was no precipitance—no inconsequence—with Him.
THE OTHER GIRLSMRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY
I started—I was out of breath—I gasped, at this frightful precipitance—I was going to open with warmth against it.
CLARISSA, VOLUME 1 (OF 9)SAMUEL RICHARDSON
She herself would have turned and fled, but for the singularity of such precipitance.
THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIR
WORDS RELATED TO PRECIPITANCE
- alacrity
- briskness
- bustle
- carelessness
- celerity
- dash
- dispatch
- drive
- expedition
- expeditiousness
- fleetness
- flurry
- foolhardiness
- hastiness
- heedlessness
- hurly-burly
- hurriedness
- hustle
- hustling
- impatience
- impetuosity
- incautiousness
- nimbleness
- pace
- precipitance
- precipitateness
- precipitation
- prematureness
- press
- promptitude
- promptness
- quickness
- rapidity
- rapidness
- rashness
- recklessness
- rush
- scamper
- scramble
- scurry
- scuttle
- swiftness
- urgency
- velocity
- alacrity
- briskness
- bustle
- carelessness
- celerity
- dash
- dispatch
- drive
- expedition
- expeditiousness
- fleetness
- flurry
- foolhardiness
- hastiness
- heedlessness
- hurly-burly
- hurriedness
- hustle
- hustling
- impatience
- impetuosity
- incautiousness
- nimbleness
- pace
- precipitance
- precipitancy
- precipitation
- prematureness
- press
- promptitude
- promptness
- quickness
- rapidity
- rapidness
- rashness
- recklessness
- rush
- scamper
- scramble
- scurry
- scuttle
- swiftness
- urgency
- velocity
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.