Synonyms for mountainous
ˈmaʊn tn əsmoun·tain·ous

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1. cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainousadjective

   having hills and crags

   "hilly terrain"

   Synonyms:
   craggy, hilly, cragged

   Antonyms:
   little, lowland, small, smooth

2. mountainousadjective

   like a mountain in size and impressiveness

   "mountainous waves"; "a mountainous dark man"

   Synonyms:
   craggy, hilly, cragged

   Antonyms:
   little, smooth, small, lowland

3. mountainousadjective

   containing many mountains

   Synonyms:
   craggy, hilly, cragged

   Antonyms:
   little, lowland, small, smooth

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1. List of paraphrases for "mountainous":

   mountain, hilly, montane, highland, mountains, upland

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1. Myles Caggins:

   The forces trekked through mountainous terrain and eliminated four hostile ISIS fighters who were barricaded in the caves, the recovery took approximately six hours.

2. H. P. Lovecraft, The White Ship:

   Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

3. Falah Mustafa Bakir:

   This has affected us negatively, because it is the mountainous border areas of the Kurdistan region that have been bombarded, people have been displaced, people have been injured. ... Therefore we hope that both sides will go back to the ceasefire.

4. Ben Cardin:

   It was not controversial that Pakistan needs to modernize its air force and its counter insurgency and counter-terrorism activities, particularly in the mountainous territory of the border with Afghanistan.

5. Ben Cardin:

   It was not controversial that Pakistan needs to modernize its air force force and its counter insurgency and counter-terrorism activities, particularly in the mountainous territory of the border with Afghanistan.