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mountainous

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1. mountainous - Adjective

2. mountainous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss.

Inhabiting mountains.

Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations. Edward Sapir

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence. James Hogg

It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines. Terry Pratchett

The swarm of thoughts, the swarm of dreams Of inaccessible Utopia. A mountainous music always seemed To be falling and to be passing away. Wallace Stevens

I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited. Andrew Bird

There are mountainous obstacles still separating Negroes from a normal existence. Yet one element in stabilizing his life would be an understanding of and easy access to the means to develop a family related in size to his community environment and to the income potential he can command. Martin Luther King Jr.

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