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[ adjective ] affording no ease or reassurance
Synonyms Examples "a precarious truce" Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)During this precarious period of development the mother should continue to influence the growth of the child 's conscience . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Literal flatness now tends to assert itself as the main event of the picture , and the device boomerangs : the illusion of depth is rendered even more precarious than before . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] fraught with danger
Synonyms Examples "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" Used in print (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)Can we continue to alienate precisely those whose gifts we so desperately need and apart from whose co-operation our mission in the world must become increasingly precarious ? Related terms |
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[ adjective ] dangerously insecure
Examples "a precarious footing on the ladder" Related terms |
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