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Pronunciation:
[ pɹɪkˈe͡əɹɪəs], [ pɹɪkˈeəɹɪəs], [ p_ɹ_ɪ_k_ˈeə_ɹ_ɪ__ə_s]
Related words: precarity, precarious employment, precarious jobs, precarious housing, precarious living, precarious city
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Similar words for precarious:
- all (adjective)
- chancy (adjective)
- changeable (adjective)
- critical (adjective)
- dangerous (adjective)
- delicate (adjective)
- doubtful (adjective)
- impressionable (adjective)
- mischievous (adjective)
- mortal (adjective)
- narrow (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- perilous (adjective)
- rickety (adjective)
- risky (adjective)
- sensitive (adjective)
- shaky (adjective)
- ticklish (adjective)
- tight (adjective)
- tottering (adjective)
- touch-and-go (adjective)
- touchy (adjective)
- treacherous (adjective)
- tricky (adjective)
- tricky, doubtful (adjective)
- unapt (adjective)
- uncertain (adjective)
- uneasy (adjective)
- unsafe (adjective)
- unsettled (adjective)
- unstable (adjective)
- unstable/unsteady (adjective)
- unsteady (adjective)
- wobbly (adjective)
- out on a limb (adverb)
- other relevant words (adverb)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Precarious:
adj.
• all (adjective) • chancy (adjective) • changeable (adjective)- convertible,
- versatile,
- irresolute,
- Transposable,
- unsteady,
- fickle,
- modifiable,
- ever-changing,
- vacillating,
- transformable,
- alterable,
- flighty,
- fluid,
- shifting,
- adaptable,
- reformable,
- adjustable,
- restless,
- mercurial,
- Vicissitudinous,
- wavering,
- movable,
- varying,
- flexible,
- variable,
- volatile,
- changeable,
- mutable,
- inconstant,
- protean.
- treacherous,
- Jeopardous,
- portentous,
- threatening,
- dangersome,
- ominous,
- risky,
- on collision course,
- menacing.
- hair-trigger,
- more hairtrigger,
- more hair trigger,
- hair trigger,
- most hairtrigger,
- most hair trigger,
- most hair-trigger,
- more hair-trigger.
- dis reputable,
- in-definite,
- dubitable,
- impugnable,
- un-decided,
- more doubtable,
- most impugnable,
- more unconfirmed,
- un confirmed,
- in-determinate,
- in determinate,
- un-confirmed,
- most unconfirmed,
- in-distinct,
- in definite,
- more impugnable,
- in-conclusive,
- un-sure,
- far fetched,
- un decided,
- hazy,
- in decisive,
- un sure,
- in conclusive,
- in-decisive,
- in distinct,
- unconfirmed,
- most doubtable,
- dis-reputable.
- impish,
- more dickens,
- most ill-behaved,
- mischievous,
- more vexing,
- most ill behaved,
- mis behaving,
- holy terror,
- ill behaved,
- teasing,
- most dickens,
- illbehaved,
- most misbehaving,
- more rascal,
- most exasperating,
- ex asperating,
- most vexing,
- more exasperating,
- most rascal,
- ex-asperating,
- more illbehaved,
- most rascally,
- more ill behaved,
- most illbehaved,
- more misbehaving,
- mis-behaving,
- more rascally,
- more ill-behaved.
- fugacious,
- most bipedal,
- most sublunary,
- impermanent,
- more sublunary,
- evanescent,
- bi-pedal,
- more bipedal,
- more creatural,
- bi pedal,
- most creatural.
- dickens,
- changeful,
- hazardous,
- touch-and-go,
- tottering,
- up set,
- not a prayer,
- unrestful,
- pettish,
- sublunary,
- tricky,
- tippy,
- on the spot,
- on a limb,
- going for broke,
- playing with fire,
- unsettled,
- Perturbable,
- wiggly,
- on thin ice,
- palpitant,
- ecce homo,
- open to attack,
- chancy,
- tight,
- ticklish,
- critical,
- doubtful,
- bundle of nerves,
- anguished,
- loaded,
- fraught with danger,
- unshielded,
- uncertain,
- unstable,
- Doubtable,
- rachitic,
- wide open,
- up for grabs,
- dangerous,
- Creatural,
- unpeaceful,
- delicate,
- hanging by thread,
- bipedal,
- on the qui vive,
- in turmoil,
- narrow,
- not fixed,
- touchy,
- ill-behaved,
- off deep end,
- on slippery ground,
- in firm,
- problematic,
- Unapt,
- all nerves,
- Wabbly,
- hairtrigger,
- rascally.
- de relict,
- in-firmer,
- jerrybuilt,
- de-relict,
- more rachitic,
- in firmest,
- most tumble down,
- in firmer,
- more tumble down,
- most rachitic,
- tumble-down,
- most tumble-down,
- more tumble-down,
- tumble down,
- in-firmest,
- jerry built.
- sensory,
- reactive,
- oversensitive,
- touchy feely,
- emotionable,
- hypersensitive,
- tuned in,
- supersensitive,
- easily affected,
- sensile,
- turned on to,
- sensatory.
- rootless,
- ashake,
- tremorous,
- not reliable,
- aquake,
- jellylike,
- not dependable,
- unfirm,
- not set,
- all aquiver.
- in-substantial,
- un shielded,
- most unshielded,
- un-protected,
- un guarded,
- in substantial,
- un-guarded,
- more unshielded,
- un-shielded,
- open attack.
- more pettish,
- most splenetic,
- badtempered,
- bad tempered,
- thinskinned,
- up-tight,
- most perturbable,
- most pettish,
- quicktempered,
- up tight,
- more perturbable,
- bundle nerves,
- wired up,
- thin skinned.
- un-apter,
- un-likelier,
- un likelier,
- un likely,
- un-likely,
- un aptest,
- un likeliest,
- un-aptest,
- un apter.
- confused,
- deniable,
- arguable,
- contestable,
- mysterious,
- debatable,
- undecided,
- controversial,
- questionable,
- unconvinced,
- ambivalent,
- vague,
- tentative,
- unfixed,
- disputable,
- moot.
- dis-mayed,
- most palpitant,
- most harassed,
- harassed,
- dis quieted,
- un quietest,
- un easy,
- dis-quieted,
- more palpitant,
- most anguished,
- dis-composed,
- dis mayed,
- up-set,
- most tormented,
- more harassed,
- un easier,
- dis composed,
- un-quiet,
- un-quietest,
- un quieter,
- un-easiest,
- most dismayed,
- more anguished,
- most vexed,
- un easiest,
- un-easier,
- ill ease,
- most disquieted,
- un-easy,
- more discomposed,
- most discomposed,
- more dismayed,
- un-quieter,
- more disquieted,
- on qui vive,
- un quiet,
- more vexed,
- more tormented.
- ex plosive,
- un-safer,
- un-trustworthy,
- ex-plosive,
- un-safe,
- fearsome,
- un safe,
- un safer,
- un safest,
- on limb,
- un-safest.
- most changeful,
- most unnerved,
- most unrestful,
- more unnerved,
- dis orderly,
- un-restful,
- un-nerved,
- most unpeaceful,
- unnerved,
- un-settled,
- un settled,
- un peaceful,
- un restful,
- un-peaceful,
- un-balanced,
- most rattled,
- un nerved,
- more rattled,
- more changeful,
- more unrestful,
- dis-orderly,
- more unpeaceful,
- most shifting.
adv.
• out on a limb (adverb)adv
• Other relevant words: (adverb)n.
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- disastrous,
- damaging,
- ruinous,
- injurious,
- harmful.
Other synonyms:
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- harebrained,
- tottery,
- ill-starred,
- unpromising,
- quixotic,
- disadvantageous,
- uncompetitive,
- ill-fated,
- unworkable,
- inauspicious.
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- weak.
- continually,
- lurk,
- subtle,
- Unsteadfast,
- hair-splitting,
- Controvertible,
- broken-down,
- awkward,
- problematical,
- provisional,
- wobbly,
- validity,
- temporal,
- threaten,
- explosive,
- declare,
- expose,
- imperil,
- hairbreadth,
- in question,
- dainty,
- falling apart,
- in disrepair,
- critic,
- flightiness,
- beyond hope,
- inadequate,
- intimately,
- over-nice,
- spoil,
- worrying,
- thorny,
- jeopardise,
- unsupported,
- debunk,
- broadly,
- nasty,
- chance,
- ugly,
- thwart,
- close,
- nerve-wracking,
- endanger,
- equivocal,
- exhibit,
- dicey,
- shifty,
- thickly,
- hairy,
- force,
- fickleness,
- difficult,
- fine,
- open,
- breakneck,
- rugged,
- fluctuation,
- hot,
- Teetering,
- incidence,
- dubious,
- instability,
- unhealthy,
- break,
- mostly,
- slight,
- impart,
- usually,
- unsubstantial,
- dickey,
- Susceptive,
- anxious,
- ordinarily,
- contingent,
- provisory,
- indecisive,
- acute,
- scary,
- rickety,
- frequency,
- perishable,
- uneasy,
- almost,
- tense,
- slippy,
- frightening,
- beyond help,
- narrowly,
- shivering,
- discover,
- repeatedly,
- be afraid,
- borderline,
- exactly,
- dicky,
- decrepit,
- tenuous,
- jeopardize,
- fraught,
- again and again,
- dodgy,
- inflammable,
- Instabilities,
- peril,
- terrifying,
- fragile,
- baseless,
- disclose,
- untrustworthy,
- closely,
- insubstantial,
- unsubstantiated,
- largely,
- precariousness,
- hazard,
- casual,
- unstableness,
- dilapidated,
- ramshackle,
- between two fires,
- Unsecure,
- uncover,
- erratic,
- sticky,
- in the balance,
- exquisite,
- commonly,
- unreliable,
- tightly,
- tumbledown,
- nearly,
- hair-raising,
- unpredictable,
- mentally ill,
- venturesome,
- charged,
- under fire,
- nerve-racking,
- flimsy,
- dependent,
- frustrate,
- frequence,
- danger,
- at stake,
- falling down,
- waylay,
- life-threatening,
- deciduous,
- trouble,
- frequently,
- temporary,
- desperate,
- serious,
- undependable,
- trying,
- strictly,
- virtually,
- generally,
- rocky,
- Unsolid,
- wonky,
- fallible,
- be upset,
- legitimacy,
- regularly,
- change,
- slippery,
- frail,
- insecurity,
- nice,
- hanging by a thread,
- queasy,
- wobbling,
- dynamite,
- authority,
- trembling,
- ambiguous,
- adventurous,
- divulge,
- reveal,
- approximately,
- truth,
- feeble,
- desultory,
- unfounded.
How to use "Precarious" in context?
The word "precarious" often refers to a job, situation, or life that is especially risky or unstable. It can refer to a situation in which someone's income or security is unusually vulnerable to changes in the economy or in the business environment. Precarious jobs may pay low wages or have few benefits, and workers may be at risk of being fired or of being unable to keep their jobs. Precarious situations may also involve a high level of stress and instability.
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Noun, singular or mass
insecure.
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Adjective
anxious, appalling, arduous, awkward, bad, bleak, brittle, casual, choppy, critical, crucial, desperate, difficult, disordered, disturbed, disturbing, doubtful, dubious, endangered, erratic, flimsy, frail, grave, harsh, hazardous, hesitant, high-risk, ill, inadequate, makeshift, part-time, problematic, questionable, restive, serious, stable, substandard, susceptible, thorny, tricky, troublesome, troubling, tumultuous, turbulent, unfavourable, unpredictable, unreliable, unsatisfactory, unsound, unsteady, vague, worrisome, worrying, Unsecure, unsustainable, destabilizing.
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