Entry Word: steep

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 having an incline approaching the perpendicular <a very steep rock face that was nearly impossible to climb>

Synonyms abrupt, bold, precipitous, sheer

Related Words perpendicular, plumb, straight, vertical; craggy, hilly, mountainous, scarped; angled, canted, cocked, heeled, inclined, listed, slanted, sloped, tilted, tipped

Near Antonyms gentle, gradual, moderate; even, flat, flush, horizontal, level, plane, smooth, unruffled, unwrinkled

Antonyms easy

2 going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount <that price is a bit steep for an ice cream cone> — see excessive