The first-time precarious fisherman lazily fished dangerous poisonous fish, but soon stopped to shell peas.
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Precarious
//pɹɪˈkɛəɹi.əs//
Synonyms for "precarious" (80 found)
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1 entriesderived
8 entrieshas context
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
9 entriesTranslations
55 translations across 24 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- ненадежден adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- несигурен adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Catalan
1 entries- precari adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 不穩嘅 /不稳嘅 adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- 危險嘅 /危险嘅 adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- 朝不保夕嘅 adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Czech
3 entries- nejistý adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- ošidný adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- prekérní adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Danish
2 entries- penibel adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- prekær adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Dutch
4 entries- hachelijk adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- onbestendig adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- onzeker adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- precair adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Finnish
1 entries- vaarallinen adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
French
1 entries- précaire adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
German
4 entries- bedenklich adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- bedrohlich adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- gefährdet adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- heikel adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Greek
1 entries- επισφαλής adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Hungarian
4 entries- bizonytalan adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- engedélytől függő adj ((law) depending on the intention of another)
- ingatag adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- kétes adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Korean
1 entries- 다루기 어려운 adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Latin
1 entries- precarius adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- prekær adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- prekær adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Occitan
1 entries- precari adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- roakboa adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Polish
2 entries- niebezpieczny adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- niepewny adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Portuguese
1 entries- precário adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Russian
4 entries- ненадёжный adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- опа́сный adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- риско́ванный adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- ша́ткий adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Spanish
2 entries- precario adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- precípite adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Swedish
1 entries- prekär adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Uzbek
2 entries- liqildoq adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- omonat adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Welsh
3 entries- ansicr adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- sigledig adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
- simsan adj (dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The diplomats are in a precarious position.
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Their situation is precarious.
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Tom is in a precarious position.
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