Synonyms for precipitation
prɪˌsɪp ɪˈteɪ ʃənpre·cip·i·ta·tion

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. precipitation

   Rashness applies to the actual rushing into danger without counting the cost; temerity denotes the needless exposure of oneself to peril which is or might be clearly seen to be such. Rashness is used chiefly of bodily acts, temerity often of mental or social matters; there may be a noble rashness, but temerity is always used in a bad sense. We say it is amazing that one should have had the temerity to make a statement which could be readily proved a falsehood, or to make an unworthy proposal to one sure to resent it; in such use temerity is often closely allied to hardihood, audacity, or presumption. Venturesomeness dallies on the edge of danger and experiments with it; foolhardiness rushes in for want of sense, heedlessness for want of attention, rashness for want of reflection, recklessness from disregard of consequences. Audacity, in the sense here considered, denotes a dashing and somewhat reckless courage, in defiance of conventionalities, or of other men's opinions, or of what would be deemed probable consequences; as, the audacity of a successful financier. Compare EFFRONTERY.

   Synonyms:
   audacity, foolhardiness, hardihood, hastiness, heedlessness, over-confidence, precipitancy, presumption, rashness, recklessness, temerity, venturesomeness

   Antonyms:
   care, caution, circumspection, cowardice, hesitation, timidity, wariness

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. precipitationnoun

   the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time

   "the storm brought several inches of precipitation"

   Synonyms:
   hurriedness, downfall, hastiness, hurry, haste

2. precipitationnoun

   the process of forming a chemical precipitate

   Synonyms:
   hurriedness, downfall, hastiness, hurry, haste

3. precipitation, downfallnoun

   the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)

   Synonyms:
   fall, ruination, ruin, downfall, hurriedness, haste, hurry, hastiness

4. precipitationnoun

   the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height

   Synonyms:
   hurriedness, downfall, hastiness, hurry, haste

5. precipitationnoun

   an unexpected acceleration or hastening

   "he is responsible for the precipitation of his own demise"

   Synonyms:
   hurriedness, downfall, hastiness, hurry, haste

6. haste, hastiness, hurry, hurriedness, precipitationnoun

   overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)

   "he soon regretted his haste"

   Synonyms:
   rushing, rush, downfall, hurriedness, haste, hurry, hastiness

Matched Categories

1. • Acceleration
   • Chemical Process
   • Drop
   • Indefinite Quantity
   • Speed

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. precipitationnoun

   Synonyms:
   haste, hurry, precipitance, flurry, precipitancy

2. precipitationnoun

   Synonyms:
   rashness, recklessness, thoughtlessness, heedlessness, foolhardiness, inconsiderateness, temerity, presumption

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "precipitation":

   rainfall, haste, rain, precipitating, rush, hastiness, deposition, wettest

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1. Bonnie Baxter:

   If I do the math, we got about three feet of direct precipitation that fell into the lake this year, that is fantastic, but the last two years, we also lost 2.8 feet in the summer, and we expect to lose that three feet in the desiccating summer. So now, we’re pretty much even, and that’s not a good place to be.

2. Karl Setzer:

   There is really just no reason to buy (wheat), you throw in better chances of precipitation for the wheat belt in the United States, and we just see the money come back out again.

3. Dave Hennen:

   It's difficult enough to do a five-day forecast, we're really good at the day of and the next day, (and) we're better at temperature a ways out than precipitation. But to forecast out that far in advance ... even the science behind our long-range forecasting is sometimes not that solid.

4. Marty Ralph:

   An atmospheric river marked as a category 4 or a 5 is capable of producing remarkable rainfall totals over three or more days, likely to exceed 10 % to 15 % of a typical year's precipitation in some locations.

5. Daniel Swain:

   We haven’t seen the mega floods, but we have definitely seen hints of increasingly extreme precipitation even in the middle of what has otherwise been a period characterized by a pretty severe and persistent drought.