precarious
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
affording no ease or reassurance
a precarious truce
Related & opposite
- uncertainty derivation
- unstableness derivation
- uneasy similar to
Sense 2 adjective
fraught with danger
dangerous waters
Related & opposite
- risk derivation
- precariousness derivation
- hazardousness derivation
- risk derivation
- riskiness derivation
- dangerous similar to
Sense 3 adjective
not secure; beset with difficulties
a shaky marriage
Related & opposite
- uncertainty derivation
- shakiness derivation
- unsafe similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | uncertainty |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | unstableness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | uneasy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | risk |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | precariousness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | hazardousness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | risk |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | riskiness |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | dangerous |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | uncertainty |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | shakiness |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | unsafe |