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STEEPISH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does steepish mean?
• STEEPISH (adjective)
The adjective STEEPISH has 1 sense:
1. somewhat steep
Familiarity information: STEEPISH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Somewhat steep
Similar:
steep (having a sharp inclination)
Context examples
I was suddenly, upon turning the corner of a steepish downy field, in the midst of a retired little village between gently rising hills; a small stream before me to be forded, a church standing on a sort of knoll to my right—which church was strikingly large and handsome for the place, and not a gentleman or half a gentleman's house to be seen excepting one—to be presumed the Parsonage—within a stone's throw of the said knoll and church.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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