Crossword-Solution: STEEPNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Steepness | n. | Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof. |
| Steepness | n. | Height; loftiness. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “STEEPNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cliff consideration | 1 answer |
| Grade measurement | 1 answer |
| High-grade quality | 1 answer |
| Precipice quality | 1 answer |
| Rock climber's consideration | 1 answer |
| What gradeability is a measure of | 1 answer |
| Mountaineer's concern | 2 answers |
| exorbitance | 14 answers |
| gradient | 47 answers |
| hump | 48 answers |
| Slope | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STEEPNESS (5)
She locked the door behind her, and Rebecca might hear her curse every step for its steepness, as slowly and with difficulty she descended the turret-stair.
The burst with which the carriage started out of the village and up the rise beyond, was soon checked by the steepness of the hill.
Situated in a valley that was bounded outwardly by the sea, it formed a point of depression from which the road ascended with great steepness to West Endelstow and the Vicarage.
But I was in no mood to have the place profaned by their silly tremblings and stares: I beat at them with my hands, tearing them away, and hurling them back down the steepness of the steps.
These are continued by easy gradations mile after mile all the way to the truncated, crumbling summit, where they attain a steepness of twenty to twenty-five degrees.
Quotes with STEEPNESS (3)
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!
Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my late indisposition, I must yet confess that the hill of science, like that of virtue, is in some instances climbed with labour. But when we get a little way up, the lovely prospects which open the eye make infinite amends for the steepness of the ascent. In short, I am wedded to these pursuits, as a man stipulates to take his wife; viz., for better, for worse, until death us do pa…
Currently, the Pegasus Pipeline runs through about 13 miles of the Lake Maumelle watershed and also crosses some of the lake's tributaries. I am especially concerned that the steepness of the shoreline at Lake Maumelle could exacerbate contamination of the water supply in the event of an oil spill and make cleanup more difficult.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (2003–2013).