All precarious synonyms
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P p adjective precarious
- incapacious β Not capacious; narrow, small, weak, or foolish.
- dodgy β inclined to dodge.
- wobbly β shaky; unsteady.
- aquake β Quaking.
- wiggly β wiggling: a wiggly child.
- insecure β subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person.
- narrow β of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- rachitic β rickets.
- jerrybuilt β Of or pertaining to a shoddily built structure.
- doubtable β (uncommon) Capable of being doubted; doubtful; dubious; dubitable. See usage notes below.
- wonky β British Slang. shaky, groggy, or unsteady. unreliable; not trustworthy.
- dynamite β A high explosive consisting of nitroglycerine mixed with an absorbent material and typically molded into sticks.
- wabbly β shaky; unsteady.
- emotionable β (rare, of a person or group or of their behavior or faculties) Particularly expressive of or affected by emotion.
- jellylike β a food preparation of a soft, elastic consistency due to the presence of gelatin, pectin, etc., especially fruit juice boiled down with sugar and used as a sweet spread for bread and toast, as a filling for cakes or doughnuts, etc.
- fragile β brittle
- jeopardous β perilous; dangerous; hazardous; risky.
- mortal β subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- exceptive β Exceptional, having an exception.
adj precarious
- dickens β Charles (John Huffam), pen name Boz. 1812β70, English novelist, famous for the humour and sympathy of his characterization and his criticism of social injustice. His major works include The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), Old Curiosity Shop (1840β41), Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), and Great Expectations (1861)
- fluctuant β fluctuating; varying; unstable.
- impugnable β to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
- creatural β of, relating to, or of the nature of a creature.
- chancy β Something that is chancy involves a lot of risk or uncertainty.
- delicate β Something that is delicate is small and beautifully shaped.
- hazardous β full of risk; perilous; risky: a hazardous journey.
- hypersensitive β excessively sensitive: to be hypersensitive to criticism.
- all-important β crucial; vital
- dangerous β If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- doubtful β of uncertain outcome or result.
- hair-trigger β easily activated or set off; reacting immediately to the slightest provocation or cause: a hair-trigger temper.
- loaded β bearing or having a load; full: a loaded bus.
- mischievous β maliciously or playfully annoying.
- bipedal β having two feet
- linear β of, consisting of, or using lines: linear design.
- ecce homo β Art. a painting, statue, or other representation of Christ crowned with thorns.
- bundle of nerves β a very nervous person
- anguished β Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.
- critical β If a person is critical or in a critical condition in hospital, they are seriously ill.
- changeful β often changing; inconstant; variable
- ill-behaved β 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- ashake β in a shaking manner