different between precipitate vs incautious
precipitate
English
Alternative forms
- præcipitate (obsolete)
Etymology 1
From Latin praecipitatus, from praecipit? (“throw down, hurl down, throw headlong”), from praeceps (“head foremost, headlong”), from prae (“before”) + caput (“head”).
Pronunciation
Verb:
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /p???s?p?te?t/, /p???s?p?te?t/
Adjective:
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /p???s?p?t?t/, /p???s?p?t?t/
common but often proscribed:
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /p???s?p?te?t/, /p???s?p?te?t/
Verb
precipitate (third-person singular simple present precipitates, present participle precipitating, simple past and past participle precipitated)
- (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
- Synonyms: advance, accelerate, hasten, speed up
- 1737, Richard Glover, Leonidas Book 4
- Back to his sight precipitates her steps.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Ambition
- if they be stout and daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous
- (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
- Synonyms: throw, fling, cast; see also Thesaurus:throw
- (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
- (intransitive, chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- (intransitive, meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
- Troponyms: rain, snow, hail
- (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
- The light vapour of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold.
- (intransitive) To fall headlong.
- (intransitive) To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
Synonyms
- headlong
Derived terms
Related terms
- precipice
- precipitation
Translations
Adjective
precipitate (comparative more precipitate, superlative most precipitate)
- headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
- Synonyms: headlong, precipitant, precipitous
- Very steep; precipitous.
- Synonym: brant
- With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
- Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, rash; see also Thesaurus:reckless
- Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
- Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
- Synonyms: abrupt, precipitous, subitaneous; see also Thesaurus:sudden
Derived terms
- precipitately
- precipitateness
Translations
Etymology 2
From New Latin praecipitatum. Doublet of precipitato.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /p???s?p?t?t/, /p???s?p?t?t/
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /p???s?p?te?t/, /p???s?p?te?t/
Noun
precipitate (plural precipitates)
- a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 381]:
- As for the musculature it is a precipitate of Spirit and the signature of the cosmos is in it.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 381]:
- (chemistry) a solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution
Translations
Related terms
- precipitous
Further reading
- precipitate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- precipitate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- precipitate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Peripatetic, peripatetic
Italian
Adjective
precipitate f pl
- feminine plural of precipitato
Verb 1
precipitate
- second-person plural present of precipitare
- second-person plural imperative of precipitare
Verb 2
precipitate f pl
- feminine plural past participle of precipitare
precipitate From the web:
- what precipitate forms
- what precipitated the montgomery bus boycott
- what precipitated the situation illustrated by the image
- what precipitated the scandal how did it end
- what precipitated the call for a second crusade
- what precipitated the tulsa race riot
- what precipitated the watergate scandal
- what precipitate will form
incautious
English
Etymology
From in- (negative prefix) +? cautious.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?k???s/
- Rhymes: -????s
Adjective
incautious (comparative more incautious, superlative most incautious)
- careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution.
- 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
- "Yes, let 'Sister' Davis have a whack at it too," urged George Bland. Tom Davis, who was Joe Matson's particular chum, was designated "Sister" because, in an incautious moment, when first coming to Excelsior Hall, he had shown a picture of his very pretty sister, Mabel.
- Synonym: uncautious
- 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
Derived terms
- incautiously
- incautiousness
Related terms
- incaution
Translations
incautious From the web:
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- a cautious person
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