What is another word for crags?

Pronunciation: [kɹˈaɡz] (IPA)

The term "crags" is often used to describe rough, steep and jagged rocks or cliffs. However, there are several other synonymous words that can be used to describe similar geographical formations. These words include "promontories," "bluffs," "cliffs," "outcroppings," and "precipices." Each of these words can refer to different types of rock formations; promontories, for instance, typically describe flat-topped cliffs or hills that extend out over the sea. Bluffs typically blend gradually with their surrounding landscape, while precipices are vertical drops. Knowing these synonyms gives writers a greater range of descriptive language to use when describing rocky landscapes.

Synonyms for Crags:

What are the hypernyms for Crags?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    cliffs, rock formations.

What are the opposite words for crags?

Crags are rugged, rocky outcrops that can be found in mountainous areas. The word "crags" has a number of antonyms, including smooth, level, flat, even, and plain. Smooth refers to a surface that is free of bumps or irregularities, while level refers to a surface that is even and flat. Flat is similar to level, but implies a lack of slopes or hills. Even describes a surface that is consistently flat or level. Finally, plain refers to a flat or rolling landscape that is free of major geological features. These antonyms are useful for describing landscapes that lack the rugged, rocky features of crags.

What are the antonyms for Crags?

Usage examples for Crags

So when his horse fell, too tired to rise again, he dismounted and forced his way on; and soon he saw before him the white doe, labouring up an ascent of sharp crags, while closer and higher the rocks rose and narrowed on every side.
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman
Fox-hunting on Minto crags must indeed have been a picturesque sight, and there was a special rock overhanging a precipice upon which she loved to sit and watch the wild chase, men and horses appearing and disappearing with flashing rapidity among the woods and ravines beneath.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
But minor changes there may be, and it would seem that the violent oscillations of temperature from day to night ought to have some effect in breaking down and crumbling the sharp peaks and crags which are there so common and so pronounced.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock

Famous quotes with Crags

  • It little profits that an idle king,By this still hearth, among these barren crags,Matchd with an aged wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race,That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drinkLife to the lees. All times I have enjoydGreatly, have sufferd greatly, both with thoseThat loved me, and alone; on shore, and whenThro scudding drifts the rainy HyadesVext the dim sea. I am become a name;For always roaming with a hungry heartMuch have I seen and known,cities of menAnd manners, climates, councils, governments,Myself not least, but honord of them all,And drunk delight of battle with my peers,Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met;Yet all experience is an arch wherethroGleams that untravelld world whose margin fadesFor ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnishd, not to shine in use!As tho to breathe were life! Life piled on lifeWere all too little, and of one to meLittle remains; but every hour is savedFrom that eternal silence, something more,A bringer of new things; and vile it wereFor some three suns to store and hoard myself,And this gray spirit yearning in desireTo follow knowledge like a sinking star,Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho much is taken, much abides; and thoWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
    Alfred Tennyson
  • Along crags and sunless cracks I go, Up rib of rock, down spine of stone, I dare not slumber where the right winds whistle, Lest her creeping-soul clutch this heart of thistle.
    Nick Cave
  • This vast pile of natural beauty, those crags and fir trees and hovering hawks, those echoing ravines and vast tumblings of snow and earth, brought me swiftly to the understanding of my own insignificance and, indeed, the insignificance of all human struggle.
    Michael Moorcock
  • I divined and chose a distant place to dwell T'ien T'ai: what more is there to say? Monkeys cry where valley mists are cold My grass gate blends with the color of the crags I pick leaves to thatch a hut among the pines Scoop out a pond and lead a runnel from the spring By now I am used to doing without the world Picking ferns I pass the years that are left
    Hanshan
  • And o'er them lowers destruction, high in air, Upon those jutting crags, whose rugged sides, Riven in fragments, and like ruins pil'd, Seem as that giants of those ancient days When earthborn creatures braved th' Olympic Gods, Those of whom fable tells, had torn away Rocks from their solid base, and with strong arm, Parted the mountains: there the avalanche hangs, Mighty, but tremulous; just a light breath Will loosen it from off its airy throne; Then down it hurls in wrath, like to the sound Of thunder amid storms, or as the voice Of rushing waters—death in its career.
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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