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Definition of Precarious
1. Adjective. Affording no ease or reassurance. "A precarious truce"
2. Adjective. Fraught with danger. "Dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"
Similar to: Dangerous, Unsafe
Derivative terms: Peril, Peril, Peril, Perilousness, Precariousness
3. Adjective. Not secure; beset with difficulties. "A shaky marriage"
Definition of Precarious
1. a. Depending on the will or pleasure of another; held by courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another; as, precarious privileges.
Definition of Precarious
1. Adjective. (comparable) dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous ¹
2. Adjective. (legal) depending on the intention of another ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Precarious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precarious
Literary usage of Precarious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The Jewish patriarch, who was still permitted to exercise a precarious jurisdiction,
held his residence at Tiberias," and the neighbouring cities of ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1844)
"... thirds, and all claim upon the real and personal estate of the husband, if
precarious and uncertain, as, that the personal estate shall go according to ..."
3. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1861)
"... TO REINFORCE SCHUYLER—precarious STATE OF WASHINGTON'S ARMY—CONJECTURES AS TO
THE DESIGNS OF THE ENEMY—EXPEDITION OF THE BRITISH AGAINST PEEKS- KILL. ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"precarious nature of the Peace. [isca rusty. Between old monarchies and a young
republic the spirit of hostility must always exist. ..."
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