Precarious

Adjective

 * 1)  dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous
 * 2)  depending on the intention of another

Quotations

 * 1906, Jack London, White Fang, part I, ch III,
 * Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious.

Derived terms

 * precariously
 * precariousness
 * precarisation, precarization
 * precariat

Adverbs for Precarious
obviously; naturally; unduly; admittedly; necessarily; terribly; painfully; gravely; awfully; fearfully; alarmingly; grievously; frequently; peculiarly.

Thesaurus
ambiguous, borderline, chancy, critical, dangerous, delicate, desultory, dicey, difficult, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, hairy, hazardous, iffy, indecisive, infirm, insecure, insubstantial, on slippery ground, on thin ice, open, perilous, problematic, provisional, questionable, risky, sensitive, shaky, shifting, shifty, slippery, slippy, temporary, tentative, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, tricky, uncertain, undependable, unfaithworthy, unpredictable, unreliable, unsettled, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy

Etymology
From precarius:, from prex:, precis:. Compare French précaire: and Spanish, Portuguese and Italian precario:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: несигурен
 * Dutch: precair
 * French:
 * German:


 * Portuguese: precário
 * Swedish:
 * Yiddish: אומזיכער