precarious meaning and definition

PRECARIOUS adjective

Definition of precarious (adjective)

1. affording no ease or reassurance
   • "a precarious truce"
   • synonyms: unstable
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"
   • synonyms: parlous, perilous, touch-and-go
3. not secure; beset with difficulties
   • "a shaky marriage"
   • synonyms: shaky