capit-, capt-, cap-, cep-, ceps-, chapt-, chef, cip-

With great haste; with rash unadvised haste; with tumultuous hurry.

1. To send someone or something suddenly and rapidly into a particular state or condition.
2. To cause a liquid or solid forms of water, condensed in the atmosphere, to fall to the ground as rain, snow, or hail, or fall in such a form.
3. To throw someone or something from a great height, or to fall from a great height.
4. To cause a substance in solution to settle down in solid particles; the solid that settles out of a solution.
5. A deposit made or substance thrown down by precipitation.
6. Occurring with undue rapidity, as precipitate labor.
7. In immunology, the product of interaction between soluble macromolecular antigen and the homologous antibody, e.g., the antigen-antibody complex formed as a consequence of the reaction of pneumococcus capsular polysaccharide in solution with specific antiserum.

1. The act of precipitating; the state of being precipitated.
2. A casting down or falling headlong.
3. A hastening or hurrying in movement, procedure, or action.
4. Sudden haste.
5. Unwise or rash rapidity.
6. In meteorology: falling products of condensation in the atmosphere; such as, rain, snow, or hail.
7. The amount of rain, snow, hail, etc., that has fallen at a given place within a given period, usually expressed in inches or centimeters of water.
8. In chemistry and physics: the precipitating of a substance from a solution.

1. Done or acting too quickly and without enough thought.
2. Very high and steep.
3. Done with very great haste and without due deliberation.

1. Abruptly; in a precipitous manner; with a steep descent: "The mountains rose precipitously from the shore."
2. Very suddenly and to a great degree.
3. If a reduction or increase is precipitous, it is fast.

1. The characteristics of a slope that is very steep.
2. Synonyms: quick, sharp; short, hurried, hasty, blunt; discontinuous, broken, uneven.