mountainous : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mountainous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for mountainous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mountainous adj having hills and crags; "hilly terrain" [syn: cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous] like a mountain in size and impressiveness; "mountainous waves"; "a mountainous dark man" containing many mountains
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mountainous \Moun"tainous\, a. [F. montagneux, L. montaniosus.] 1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous* country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. [Obs.] --Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. --Prior.