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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. having hills and crags;
- Example: "hilly terrain"
[syn: cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous]

2. like a mountain in size and impressiveness;
- Example: "mountainous waves"
- Example: "a mountainous dark man"

3. containing many mountains; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mountainous \Moun"tain*ous\, a. [F. montagneux, L. montaniosus.]
   1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous
      country of the Swiss.
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   2. Inhabiting mountains. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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   3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk;
      as, a mountainous heap. --Prior.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

66 Moby Thesaurus words for "mountainous":
   Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
   Homeric, abysmal, alpen, alpestrine, alpigene, alpine,
   amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, boundless, bulky,
   colossal, cosmic, craggy, elephantine, enormous, epic, extensive,
   formidable, galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, high,
   hilly, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, jumbo, king-size,
   knobby, large, mammoth, massive, massy, mighty, monster, monstrous,
   monticuline, monumental, mountained, outsize, overgrown,
   prodigious, profound, rolling, sizable, spacious, staggering,
   steep, stupendous, subalpine, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast,
   voluminous, weighty