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UK
/mˈaʊntɪnəs/
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[ US /ˈmaʊntənəs/ ]
[ US /ˈmaʊntənəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- containing many mountains
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like a mountain in size and impressiveness
a mountainous dark man
mountainous waves -
having hills and crags
hilly terrain
How To Use mountainous In A Sentence
- Almost all the land is mountainous and high above sea level.
- How many fathers would drive their daughter 120 miles through mountainous terrain so she could attend weekly ballet and singing lessons?
- The Dominican Republic's mountainous interior and long stretches of unimproved roads make for perfect fat-tire odysseys.
- The storm heaved the sea into mountainous weaves.
- The mountainous terrain is hampering tracking. Times, Sunday Times
- The mountainous Mid-Coastal Sedimentary ecoregion lies outside of the coastal fog zone and is typically underlain by massive beds of sandstone and siltstone in contrast to the volcanics of Ecoregion 1d. Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
- The area encompasses zones of subarctic mountain birch forest in the lowlands, heather and grassland higher up, and mountainous alpine terrain at the highest altitudes.
- Many of the islands are mountainous and heavily forested with teak, ebony, and sandalwood.
- Taking a natural view of the country, it is barren, sandy, and mountainous, interspersed with a few green spots, called oases, or made fertile by the inundation of some river in the rainy season. Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, A Native of Central Africa
- We searched other major valleys sporting outcrops of the same volcanically derived sedimentary rocks, which are exposed across thousands of square kilometers of mountainous terrain.