Steep

Definition: Steep

Steep

Adjective

1. Having a sharp inclination; "the steep attic stairs"; "steep cliffs".

2. Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usorious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending".

3. Of a slope; set at a high angle; "note the steep incline"; "a steep roof sheds snow".

Noun

1. A steep place (as on a hill).

Verb

1. Engross (oneself) fully; "He immersed himself into his studies".

2. Sit or let sit in boiling water to extract the flavor; "the tea is brewing".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "steep" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Steep \Steep\, adjective. [Comper. Steeper; superlative Steepest.]. (references)

Industry

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Steep

Water

Add water, water, wet; moisten; dilute, dip, immerse; merge; immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle.

Crosswords: Steep

Ignorance is a steep hill with perilous rocks at the bottom (The Wind and the Lion; writing credit: John Milius)

Steep & Deep (1986)

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Books

• Diana Cooper: Autobiography; The Rainbow Comes and Goes; The Lights of Common Day; Trumpets from the Steep (reference)

• Logging and Transport in Steep Terrain (Fao Forestry Paper 14 Rev 1)/F2777 (reference)

• Steep Cliffs (reference)

• Steep Holm: The Story of a Small Island (reference)

• Steep Passages: A World-wide Eco-Adventurer Unlocks Nature's Spiritual Truths (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Residential Steep Slope Roofing Materials Guide (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Steep (reference)

• Steep & Deep (reference)

• Steep Techniques (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Steep Steps (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Landing at Station "Steep" Survey crew off SURVEYOR. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Knife-edged ridge showing effects of erosion with multiple steep stream valleys. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Glacier Bay - outwash from stream leaves steep gravelly deltaic deposit. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Looking downstream at the notch in the dam just prior to installation of the Alaskan Steep Pass. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A worker fits the Alaskan Steep Pass into the notch in the dam. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Team members from the Air Combat Command Communications Group at Langley Air Force Base, Va., trek up a steep hill during a 6.2-mile forced march to kick off the inaugural Wilderness Challenge 2000 competition near the New River Gorge National River in We.

A 'soil slip' occurs on steep slopes when thawed soil slides over a frozen soli layer below. In the Palouse area, Washington. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Large no-till planters are used on steep slope in Washington's Palouse region. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Nationally known for its beauty, the Paria Canyon has towering walls streaked with desert varnish, huge red rock amphitheaters, sandstone arches, wooded terraces, and hanging gardens. The 3,000-foot escarpment known as the Vermilion Cliffs dominates the remainder of the wilderness with its thick Navajo sandstone face, steep, boulder-strewn slopes and rugged arroyos. Some of the best canyon hiking opportunities on the Colorado River Plateau are found here. Credit: Unknown.

View from canyon rim looking down to the Owyhee River. There are very steep cliffs going down to the river. Credit: Unknown.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And besides there were many steep hills

He drove down a steep dirt incline and parked on the edge of the encampment

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Health

Further, recent U.S. and international data point to a steep increase in prevalence of the condition. (references)

Most neurotransmitter research, however, continues to focus on acetylcholine because of its steep decline in Alzheimer's disease and its close ties to memory formation and reasoning. (references)

During the last 50 years in the United States, the utilization of screening programs based on the Papanicolaou (Pap) smear and pelvic examination has led to a steep decline in incidence and deaths from cervical cancer. (references)

Business

Practical entry barriers into the Swedish market are steep. (references)

Steep import duties, registration fees and a vehicle quota system contribute to the level of vehicle ownership in Singapore. (references)

Once issues such as the high cost of aviation fuel resulting from steep taxes are resolved, the small airport sector is likely to grow and provide a market for airport products. (references)

Economic History

Romania

Steep salary taxes may also generate problems. (references)

Estonia

Steep limestone banks and 1,520 islands mark the coastline. (references)

Hong Kong

Terrain: Hilly to mountainous, with steep slopes and natural harbor. (references)

Political Economy

ROMANIA

Also, taxes on both profits and operations are steep. (references)

TURKEY

For many of these, Turkey maintains steep tariffs as well as non-tariff barriers. (references)

NICARAGUA

Customs Procedures: Importers complain of steep secondary customs costs, including customs declaration form charges and consular fees. (references)

Trade

Hong Kong

In addition, a steep tax, called a "First Registration Tax," which ranges from 40-60 percent of the price, is levied on new car purchases. (references)

India

A steep (effectively 180 percent) import duty on second hand motor vehicles and two wheelers, tea coffee, crude and refined edible oil was introduced to restrict imports and protect domestic industry. (references)

Indonesia

These economic factors coupled with lingering political instability have led to steep declines in both imports and direct foreign investment, and private capital inflows have remained strongly negative since 1998. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "steep": it seems a bit steep ♦ precipitous steep ♦ steep climb ♦ steep face ♦ Steep Falls ♦ steep in corrosive fluid ♦ steep oneself in ♦ steep price ♦ steep rock ♦ steep slope ♦ steep the tea ♦ steep track ♦ steep turn. Additional references.

Beginning with "steep": steep-angled, steep-banked, Steep-down, steep-faced, steep-flowing, steep-gabled, steep-incline, steep-pitched, steep-roofed, steep-sided, steep-sloped, steep-sloping, steep-to, Steep-up, steep-walled.

Albanian

rrëpirë (abruptness, chute, escarpment, scar, scarp), i thiktë (bluff, precipitous), i rrëpirët (bluff, hilly, precipitous, rapid, sharp), futje (entrance, entry, ingoing, input, insertion, intake, intrusion, joining in, thrusting). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرتفع جدا (taunt), ‏نقع (assuage, drench, impregnate, impregnation, infuse, mashing, saturate, saturation, slake, soak, souse, temper, wash, water), ‏وعر (broken, bumpy, hairy, impassable, irregular, jolty, lumpy, malaise, mountainous, precipitous, ragged, rough, rugged, sharp, tight), ‏غمس (dip, dipping, dunk, sop, submersion), ‏عمودي (columnar, perpendicular, plumb, straight, upright, vertical), ‏عال (advanced, loud, taunt), ‏الحدر, ‏إنحدار (coming down, decline, declivity, downgrade, downhill, falling, inclination, rake, ramp, scarp, slope, tilt), ‏إنتقع, ‏أشبع (appease, assuage, charge, drench, feed, flood, full, gratify, please, requite, sate, satiate, saturate, slake, soak), ‏شاهق (airy, alpine, eminent, tall, towering), ‏شرب (bib, drain, drink, imbibe, impregnate, infuse, ingrain, inoculate, quaff, stain), ‏شديد الإنحدار, ‏بلل تبليلا كاملا, ‏باهظ (burdensome, exorbitant, extortionate, fulsome, hard). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стръмнина (acclivity, slide), стръмен (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bluffy, declivitous, high pitched, humpbacked, prone, rapid), урва (precipice), топя (dissolve, found, fuse, melt, render, run, smelt, thaw, try, unfreeze), внезапен (abrupt, jerky, precipitate, puffy, snap, sudden, surprise, swift, unexpected), натопяване, накисване (infusion, maceration, soak, soaking, souse, steeping), накисвам (drench, macerate, saturate, soak, sodden, souse), мокря (madefy, soak, water, wet), преувеличен (exaggerated, flaming, high-colored, high-coloured, strained, tall), потапям в луга, потапям (bathe, douse, plunge, whelm), импрегнирам (impregnate, oil). (various references)

Chinese 

陡峭 (Steep-up), 陡 , 險峻 (arduous), 漚 (bubble, drizzle, froth), 浸 (immerse, soak), 峭壁 (cliff, precipice), 峻 , 岐 (divergent, side road), 巃 (precipitous), 嶢 (high, to tower), 崟 (high, rugged mountains). (various references)

Czech

svah (descent, dip, downgrade, downhill, fall, gradient, Hill, hillside, pitch, ramp, rise, side, slope, upgrade, uphill), strmý (arduous, craggy), srázný (headlong, precipitous), prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), přemrštìný (camp, exorbitant, extravagant, fancy, glowing, gushing, hysterical, immoderate, stiff, unreasonable), příkrý (abrupt, brusque, harsh, prone, sheer, stark, violent), namoèit (dabble, dip, imbrue, soak, water, wet), namáèet. (various references)

Danish

stejl (abrupt). (various references)

Dutch

steil (abrupt). (various references)

Esperanto

kruta (abrupt). (various references)

Faeroese

brattur (abrupt). (various references)

Farsi 

فروکردن(درمایع), گزاف (Bombastic, Costly, Exorbitant, Extortionary, Extravagant, High, Immense, Rodomontade, Stupendous, Tall, Unconscionable, Vainglory), سرازیر (Ramp), سراشیب (Bluff, Shelvy, Slant), خیساندن (Drench, Imbibe, Poach, Soak, Sop), اشباع کردن (Glut, Imbibe, Imbue, Indoctrinate, Inundate, Suffuse), شیب دادن (Incline). (various references)

Finnish

jyrkkä (abrupt, precipitous, radical, sharp, strict). (various references)

French

raide (starchy, stark, stiff, strong), escarpé, abrupt (steepness), à pic. (various references)

German

steil (abrupt, high pitched, precipitately, precipitous, precipitously, rapid, sharp, sheer, smashing, steeply, upright), einweichen (macerate, soak, soaking, to soak). (various references)

Greek 

κρημνώδησ (cragged, craggy, precipitous), κρημνόσ (cliff, escarpment, precipice), κεκλιμένη ράμπα (ramp), κεκλιμένη πλατφόρμα (ramp), καμπουριασμένο (deep), βουτώ (dip, dive, douse, duck, immerse, pick pockets, pinch, plunge, sop, steal, submerge, submerse, take a dive), μουσκεύω (drench, macerate, ret, saturate, soak, wet), υπερβολικόσ (abnormal, exceeding, excess, exorbitant, extravagant, fulsome, hyperbolic, immoderate, inordinate, profuse in, rampant, rank, undue, vaulting, whopping), εμβρέχω (imbrue, soak, sop, souse), ανηφορικόσ (uphill), απόκρημνοσ (abrupt, craggy, precipitous), απόκρημνος (sheer), απότομοσ (abrupt, bluff, blunt, brusque, curt, jerky, offhand, plump, rugged), απότομος (abrupt, blunt, brusque, sheer, steep (hill)). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשרות (drench, immerse, saturate, soak, sop, souse), להשרות (dip, imbue, inspire, ret, soak), להספיג (impregnate, soak, sop), תלול (high, lofty, precipitous, sharp, sheer, sloping). (various references)

Hungarian

túlzott (affectation, complacency, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extreme, far-fetched, foppish, immodest, inordinate, obsequiousness, obsequy, outre, over-anxious, overboard, overdone, over-excitement, overshot), rendkívüli (exceptional, exceptive, exquisite, extra, extra special, extraordinary, extreme, out of the ordinary, out of this world, outstanding, phenomenal, portentous, singular, stupendous, supernormal, tiptop, uncommon, unusual, unwonted), meredek (acclivous, arduous, be steeped, bluff, bluffy, close call, hairy, headlong, high-pitched, precipitous, prone, sticky), meredély (beetling height), lejtõs (askew, aslope, downhill, inclined, sloping), beáztatás (soak), beáztat (rinse, seethe, to seethe, to sop, to souse, to steep, to wet), áztatófolyadék, áztatás (bathing, dipping, soak). (various references)

Indonesian

merendam (soak, submerge), curam (abrupt, deceitful, fraudulent). (various references)

Italian

ripido (abrupt, bluff, gruff, precipitous, sharp), erto (rapid). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

険難 (dangerous), 険阻　 (precipice), 険阻 (precipice), 険峻 , 急峻 (sharp), 急 (sudden, urgent), 截然 (distinctive), 峻険 (precipitous), 峻嶮 (precipitous), 巌巌とした (craggy), 嶮岨 (precipice), 切り立った (precipitous). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がんがんとした (craggy), きりたった (precipitous), きゅうしゅん (sharp), きゅう (ball, being absent, being finished, ex-, gather, gift, globe, nine, rest, retire, sleep, sphere, sudden, taking a day off, urgent, wage), しゅんけん (excellent wisdom, precipitous), せつぜん (coming alongside a pier or quay, entreaty, supplication), けんなん (dangerous, the calamity of being killed by the sword), けんしゅん, けんそ (economical and simple, precipice). (various references)

Korean 

가파른 (Precipitous). (various references)

Manx

ushtaghey (irrigate, irrigation, water, watering), trome (bold, burdensome, close, close oppressive, crippling, crippling burden, deep, deep-drawn, dense, dense of smoke, difficult, emphatic, expectant, expecting, grave, grievous, gruelling, hard, harsh, heavy, heavyweight, high pressure, intense, laborious, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, rough of sea, severe, sledge-hammer, stodgy, substantial, sweated, wearying, weighty, with child), thummey (dip, dive, douse, duck; diving, ducking, immerse, immersion, lunge, pitch, plunge, soak, sop, steeping, submerge, submersion), sooghey (soaking), boggaghey (aspirate, dissolve, ease, elide, elision, macerate, maceration, moisten, push off, relax, relaxation, soften, tone down), boggagh (soften). (various references)

Pig Latin

eepstay.(various references)

Portuguese

íngreme (abrupt, acclivitous, bold, craggy, precipitous, venturous), escarpado (abrupt, acclivitous, bluff, craggy, declivitous, go-ahead, headlong, precipitous, rugged). (various references)

Romanian

se muia (liquefy), se îmbiba (imbibe, sponge), sãrat (briny, saline, salt, salted, salty), pantã abruptã (scarp, steep slope), îneca (choke, deluge, drown, float, flood, flush, inundate, overflow, smother, stifle, suffocate, suffuse, swamp), înmuia (dabble, dip, drench, immerse, mellow, melt, poach, relent, ret, soak, soften, unbend), abrupt (abrupt, abruptly, arduous, bluffy, bold, craggy, desultory, disjointed, harsh, perpendicular, precipitate, precipitous, rapid, sharp), cufunda (Bury, dip, immerse, plunge, sink, submerge), exagerat (exaggerated, exaggerative, hyperbolic, inordinate, overmuch, profuse, regardless, swollen, tall, theatrical, thick, undue), extrem (abject, exceeding, excessive, extreme, extremely, furthermost, furthest, greatest, highest, like hell, outermost, paramount, supreme, ultimate, unmitigated, utmost, uttermost), iute (agile, alert, alive, brisk, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hasty, hot, hot tempered, lively, mercurial, merry, nippy, peppered, peppery, piquant, pungent, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rattling, sharp, spanking, speedy, spirited, strong, swift, swiftly, trippingly, violent, warm), leşie (buck, lye), mal abrupt (bluff), îmbiba (imbue, penetrate, soak), opãri (boil, coddle, parboil, scald), uda (bedew, damp, dip, douse, drench, irrigate, moisten, soak, souse, sparge, splash, spray, sprinkle, squirt, stain, wash, water, wet), piperat (juicy, peppery, salt, swollen), povârniş (descent, dip, fall, glacis, inclination, ramp, scarp, slant, slope), prãpãstios (abrupt, fearful, precipitous), prãpastie (abysm, abyss, chaos, chasm, depth, disaster, gulf, hollow, precipice, ravine, scar), pune la muiat, râpã (cliff, precipice, ravine), râpos (abrupt, arduous, precipitous), muia (bathe, dip, douse, liquefy, ret, soak, sop, thaw, wet). (various references)

Russian 

крутой (abrupt, arduous, craggy, hard boiled, precipitatous, precipitous, rapid, sharp). (various references)

Scottish

cas (abrupt, curled, fire, foot, gnash the teeth, haft : casan, leg, oppose, passionate, paw, rash, shaft, thwart, to close upon). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

strm (abrupt, bluff, declivous, downhill, precipitant, slant), okomit (sheer, vertical), natopiti (drench, imbrue, saturate, soak, wash, wet), natapati se. (various references)

Spanish

escarpado (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bold, precipitous, sheer). (various references)

Swedish

brant (abrupt, arduous, edge, escarpment, precipice, precipitous, scarp, sharp, sheer, steeply, uphill, verge). (various references)

Thai

สูงชัน (steepen), ฮวบฮาบ. (various references)

Turkish

suya koymak, suda bekletmek, sarp kayalık (cliff, precipice), sarp (abrupt, arduous, bluff, craggy, jagged, precipitous, rapid, rugged, scarped, stiff), fahiş (excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, fancy, out of sight, prohibitive, prohibitory, stiff, unconscientious, unreasonable), ıslatma (damping, drench, soak, soakage, wetting), ıslatma sıvısı, ıslatmak (bedrabble, bedraggle, damp, dampen, douse, dowse, drench, imbrue, moisten, moisturize, saturate, soak, sop, souse, sprinkle, swim, water, wet), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), abartılı (dithyrambic, exaggerated, fond, fustian, hyperbolic, hyperbolical, inflated, magniloquent, ornate, overdone, puffy, slobbery, spread eagle, stagey, stagy, swelling, tall, theatrical, turgescent, turgid, well-rounded), demlemek (brew, draw, infuse, soak), dik (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bold, erect, horny, jagged, perpendicular, precipitous, rapid, right, rough, scarped, sheer, Square, stand up, stiff, straight, up, upright, uprightly, upstanding, vertical), ıslanma (ducking, getting wet, soak, soakage), doyurmak (feed, fill, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate), yalçın (rugged), içirmek (impregnate, make to drink), inanılmaz (beyond belief, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, implausible, inconceivable, incredible, stiff, unbelievable, unheard of, unreliable), uçurum (abysm, abyss, bluff, chasm, cliff, crag, gap, gulf, precipice, scarp), dik yokuş (rapid slope). (various references)

Turkmen 

dik (perpendicular). (various references)

Ukrainian

роздутий (bloated, distent, inflated, wind-blown), крутий (abrupt, arduous, bluff, bluffy, craggy, rapid, sharp), настоювати (decoct, infuse), надмірний (exceeding, excessive, exorbitant, fulsome, immoderate, outrageous, over, overabundant, overdue, plethoric, prodigal, profuse, racking, superabundant, undue, unlimited, unreasonable), занурювати (dip, douse, dowse, drown, duck, enwrap, immerse, plunge), занурення (dip, dipping, dive, diving, immersion, plunge, plunging, sinking), замочувати (soak), замочування (soak, soaking), заливати (bathe, fill in, overflow, overwhelm, suffuse, swamp, wash, wash down). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phóng đại (exaggeratedly, exaggerative), không thể tin được (unbelievable), không biết đều ngoa, dốc (bias, declivity, gradient, ramp, slope, slopewise, sloping, uphill, versant), chỗ dốc (rise, risen, slope). (various references)

Welsh

serth (abrupt, obscene, precipitous), trwytho (imbue, saturate), rhoi yng ngwlych, mwydo (moisten, soak), llethrog (declining, sloping), diffwys (awful, high, huge, waste, wild), dibyn (precipice). (various references)

angusta, angustam, angusti, angustiorem, angusto, angustos, angustum, angustus, ardua, clivum, directa, directae, directam, directo, directum, directus, imbuo, intinctum, intinguat, intinguatur, intingue, intingues, intinguet, intinguit, intinxerit, intinxisset, intinxit, praeceps, praecipitarum, praecipiti, praeruptam, praerupti, praeruptis, praerupto, praeruptum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "steep": steeped, steepen, steepened, steepening, steepens, steeper, steepers, steepest, steeping, steepish, steeple, steeplebush, steeplebushes, steeplechase, steeplechaser, steeplechasers, steeplechases, steeplechasing, steeplechasings, steepled, steeplejack, steeplejacks, steeples, steeply, steepness, steepnesses, steeps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Steep" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Csteep, sbep, scheep, sdep, sfep, sjep, skeep, smep, sqep, srep, stape, staup, steap, steape, Stee, steef, steeg, steepe, Steib, stemp, stepe, stepel, steph, stepp, Sterpa, steze, stiap, stiep, streep, strepp, sttrep, styb, stymp, stype, svep, sxep, syep, teep, tsee, tseeep, tseef. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pees, pest, pets, seep, sept, step, tees.

-2 letters: pee, pes, pet, see, set, tee.

-3 letters: es, et, pe.

+1 letter: etapes, peseta, pester, pestle, peters, preset, septet, steeps, steppe, tepees, topees.

+2 letters: deepest, deputes, despite, ectypes, empties, epeeist, epistle, excepts, exempts, expects, experts, eyespot, heptose, metepas, metopes, openest, pectase, pectens, peewits, pelites, pellets, pelmets, pelters, penates, penster, pentose, pertest, pesetas, pesters, pestier, pestled, pestles, petites, petrels, petters, pettles, pewters, peyotes, pieties, poetess, poetise, posteen, poteens, present, presets, prester, pretest, puttees, recepts, repeats, repents, reputes, respect, respelt, respite, retapes, retypes, scepter, sceptre, septate, septets, septime, serpent, specter, spectre, spelter, steeped, steepen, steeper, steeple, steeply, stepped, stepper, steppes, teepees, tempehs, tempers, tempest, temples, threeps, toupees, typeset.