Precarious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRECARIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• insecure, uncertain
• not securely held or in position; dangerously likely to fall or collapse
• dependent on chance; uncertain
• 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.
• Held by a doubtful tenure; depending on unknown causes or events; exposed to constant risk; not to be depended on for certainty or stability; uncertain; as, a precarious state of health; precarious fortunes.
• affording no ease or reassurance
• fraught with danger
• not secure; beset with difficulties
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• depending on the will or pleasure of another

Words related to PRECARIOUS

precariously19 precariousness18

How to use PRECARIOUS in a sentence

• Her precarious health made her particularly dear to us.
• But though these were finished with infinite rapidity, he found that they constituted a very precarious means of subsistence.
• At the end of a week, believing my chances of recovery, under such circumstances, precarious, I ordered my horse and buggy, and started for Waupun, thirty miles distant.
• Some fish are caught in this stream, which serve to eke out the very scanty, and precarious subsistence of the Indians at this season.
• His pleas for a real religious freedom were in vain, and he was forced to wander from the colonial settlements and find a precarious home among the Indians.
• But I might have written to you for advice, in my precarious situation, perhaps you will think.
• You may imagine that my life, without a profession and without any reliable resources, has been rather precarious.
• But most of all they resemble us in their precarious hold on life.
• He lived a precarious existence for several months, suffering from exposure, reduced to the verge of starvation, his whereabouts a mystery to his friends.
• His situation was very precarious, for, should his strength begin to give out, he was certain to be carried under the ice and lost.
• Bligh, in what a precarious state of health he must have been at the time.
• It grieved me extremely to hear of your precarious state of health.
• Then testimony itself is but a precarious thing, different eyes seeing the same objects in different lights.
• They renounce precarious gayety for persistent slavery.
• The precarious situation in some of the newly opened territories allotted to your assembly must be given first consideration and should be speedily remedied.
• Again they dipped down steep slopes and ascended others as steep, where Silk was forced to scramble, and Hazel kept a precarious seat.
• The fathers proceeded upon very precarious grounds, and brought their evidence to a wrong test.
• Roger leaped upon them, leaped again, caught a hold on the tree and began the precarious climb upward.
• If it depended upon reason, it would have but a precarious existence.
• Charlton climbed along on the precarious footing afforded by the submerged pole, holding to the poles above while the water rushed about his feet.
• He evidently thought the case a strange and precarious one.
• He knew that it was highly dangerous to rest so close to habitation, and he would not risk another day in such precarious shelter.
• The food of these blacks varies with the season of the year, and the supply is irregular and often precarious.
• He knew perhaps better than many an older officer the precarious condition of the Confederacy.
• In reality, Phillips was hard pressed and no one knew better than he how precarious his situation was.
• And Dan stood swallowed up in the thought of the great gulf into which precarious health would soon pitch him out of sight of Joseph for ever.
• These conditions combined to bring about a second crisis in the precarious life of this new society.
• Apart from the accumulation of knowledge and experience, which are external and precarious acquisitions, there is no proof that we have changed much since the first stone age.
• The life of the Princess Mary was precarious, for her health was weak from her childhood.
• Nor had they reached this precarious safety any too soon, for already their pursuers were passing along the rim above.

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