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Synonyms for precarious
prɪˈkɛər i əs
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Princeton's WordNet
precarious, unstable(adj)
affording no ease or reassurance
"a precarious truce"
Synonyms:
mentally ill, perilous, parlous, shaky, unstable, touch-and-go, unsound, fluidparlous, perilous, precarious, touch-and-go(adj)
fraught with danger
"dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"
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parlous, perilous, touch-and-go, unstable, shakyprecarious, shaky(adj)
not secure; beset with difficulties
"a shaky marriage"
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shivering, wobbly, trembling, perilous, parlous, rickety, shaky, wonky, unstable, touch-and-go
English Synonyms and Antonyms
precarious
Uncertain is applied to things that human knowledge can not certainly determine or that human power can not certainly control; precarious originally meant dependent on the will of another, and now, by extension of meaning, dependent on chance or hazard, with manifest unfavorable possibility verging toward probability; as, one holds office by a precarious tenure, or land by a precarious title; the strong man's hold on life is uncertain, the invalid's is precarious.
Synonyms:
doubtful, dubious, equivocal, hazardous, insecure, perilous, risky, unassured, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteadyAntonyms:
actual, assured, certain, firm, immutable, incontestable, infallible, real, settled, stable, steady, strong, sure, undeniable, undoubted, unquestionable
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
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Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | word | |
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#1711 | poor | |
#4178 | dangerous | |
#4981 | weak | |
#5086 | fluid | |
#5700 | hazardous | |
#10488 | unstable | |
#11658 | delicate | |
#11666 | uncertain | |
#12828 | volatile | |
#14236 | fragile | |
#15665 | risky | |
#16845 | unsafe | |
#20066 | doubtful | |
#20069 | insecure | |
#22996 | peril | |
#23071 | dubious | |
#27144 | trembling | |
#27699 | uneasy | |
#30673 | shaky | |
#31895 | ous | |
#37328 | precarious | |
#38072 | substandard | |
#38566 | perilous | |
#40835 | unsettled | |
#44082 | shivering | |
#47843 | tenuous | |
#49479 | unsteady | |
#50319 | wobbly | |
#53805 | unsound | |
#70807 | equivocal | |
#81924 | rickety | |
#87233 | wonky | |
#243836 | parlous |
How to use precarious in a sentence?
On the face of it, the oil price appears to be stabilising. What a precarious balance it is, however, behind the façade of stability, the rebalancing triggered by the price collapse has yet to run its course, and it might be overly optimistic to expect it to proceed smoothly.
There is an extensive body of research on inequalities in health, which points primarily to the conditions within which people live and work, with the most deprived experiencing precarious income, employment, housing and now even food supply in the UK.
We live a precarious existence.
So the burden of adjustment... falls squarely on labor, basically on cutting labor costs, that, politically, is a precarious basis for a currency.
I flew a drone above the island showing just how precarious its location is : Homes clinging to the edge of an eroding coastline as unrelenting waves chisel away at what remains, after I saw what was happening on Ejit, I realized that climate change is not something nebulous that will only start affecting us in the future, but rather something happening right now. Residents are being forced to make the most difficult decision : Do they stay and build sea walls to buy some more time, or do they relocate ?
Translations for precarious
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- несигуренBulgarian
- precariCatalan, Valencian
- prekärGerman
- precarioSpanish
- متزلزلPersian
- vaarallinenFinnish
- précaireFrench
- अनिHindi
- precarioItalian
- מְסוּכָּןHebrew
- 不安定なJapanese
- precairDutch
- precárioPortuguese
- precarRomanian
- рискованный, ненадёжный, шаткий, опасныйRussian
- nesiguran, krhakSerbo-Croatian
- prekärSwedish
- ஆபத்தானTamil
- אומזיכערYiddish
- 危險的Chinese
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