Meaning & use
mountainous
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Having many mountains, or resembling a mountain in size.
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The mountainous terrain made the hiking trail exhausting but beautiful.
She faced a mountainous pile of paperwork on her first day back from vacation.
A note on using this word
Used both literally for terrain and figuratively for something enormous in quantity, such as a mountainous debt or task.
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