Precarious - Definition

precarious

adj 1: affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce"
[syn: precarious, unstable]
2: 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" [syn:
parlous, perilous, precarious, touch-and-go]
3: not secure; beset with difficulties; "a shaky marriage" [syn:
precarious, shaky]

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