Meanings
adjectivesteepy (comparative steepier, superlative steepiest)
comparative steepier · superlative steepiest · alternative steepie
- obsoleteSteep.
it was such a steepie downe-fall, and by meere strength hewen out of the maine rocke [...]
1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC1 more example
Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.
1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 370, lines 267–268
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)tew-
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)tewp-der.?
- Proto-Germanic*staupaz
- Proto-West Germanic*staup
- Old Englishstēap
- Middle Englishsteep
- Englishsteep
- Englishsteepy
Rhymes & wordplay
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APA
steepy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/steepy
MLA
“steepy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/steepy. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “steepy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/steepy.
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