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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
parlous is an adjective meaning "fraught with danger". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for parlous come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.