precarious

1. 1.

   affording no ease or reassurance

   “a precarious truce”

   Synonymsunstable

   Similaruneasy
2. 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”

   Synonymsparlousperiloustouch-and-go

   Similardangerous
3. 3.

   not secure; beset with difficulties

   “a shaky marriage”

   Synonymsshaky

   Similarinsecure

Questions about precarious

What does precarious mean?

precarious means "affording no ease or reassurance". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in precarious?

precarious has 4 syllables: pre-car-i-ous. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /pɹiˈkɛɹiəs/.

What is another word for precarious?

Close synonyms include unstable, parlous, perilous, touch-and-go, shaky. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is precarious a common word?

precarious is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with precarious?

1 word rhymes with precarious. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.