noun
- a very steep rock face or cliff, especially a tall one
- a very dangerous situation
Usage: figurative
Examples
- The hikers carefully avoided the edge of the precipice.
- She looked down from the precipice at the valley far below.
- One wrong step could send you tumbling over the precipice.
- The country stands on the precipice of economic collapse.
- His reckless behavior brought him to the precipice of disaster.
- The rocky precipice rose hundreds of feet above the ocean.
- We are on the precipice of a major breakthrough in medicine.