steep
/stip/ adj [-er/-est only] (NOT GRADUAL)Definition
› (of a slope) rising or falling at a sharp angle: The train slowed as it went up a steep incline. › A steep rise or fall is one that goes very quickly from low to high or from high to low: Yesterday’s steep decline in the value of the dollar was unexpected.
(Definition of steep adj (NOT GRADUAL) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse the Dictionary
Browse the Thesaurus
More Results for “steep”
Word of the Day
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
