Synonym: critical, dangerous, delicate, hazardous, shaky, ticklish, touchy, uncertain, unsafe, unsound, unsure. Similar words: various, nefarious, curious, glorious, imperious, delirious, penurious, lugubrious. Meaning: [prɪ'kerɪəs /-'keər-] 
adj. 1. affording no ease or reassurance 2. fraught with danger 3. dangerously insecure 4. not secure; beset with difficulties.
adj. 1. affording no ease or reassurance 2. fraught with danger 3. dangerously insecure 4. not secure; beset with difficulties. 
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61. And then he noticed the step-ladder, abandoned quickly, left in a precarious tilt against a column of boxes.
62. In some countries the drive for rugby excellence pushed student rugby into a precarious position.
63. It was a long, tense moment as they adjusted the ropes and wrestled with the banner in their precarious position.
64. The living conditions of many of these migrants in illegal squatter settlements is often precarious.
65. And they believe that what makes the current situation precarious is the continuing uncertainty over the outlook for sterling.
66. Slowly the rhythm returned again and I eased my precarious existence up the river.
67. Greenspan must assume his share of the blame for the precarious situation the global economy is now in.
68. Another is a close-up of a mud-encrusted hand reaching back toward a worker at the top of a precarious twig ladder.
69. Mary Mara makes the volatile Ruth a mainspring of precarious tension, capable of a solitary three-way argument over a peanut-butter sandwich.
70. In this precarious financial position, the party can hardly afford the restrictions on its fund-raising recently decreed by President Clinton.
71. Without a political settlement any truce in Bosnia remains precarious.
72. Conservatism may represent the attempt to establish some continuity and order in these precarious circumstances.
73. You made the precarious climb up the side of the bus using a ladder.
74. Each country was affected by the unprecedented military build up, the collapse of the precarious economy and the human suffering.
75. It evokes a precarious world which is so rickety that it may, at any time, collapse.
76. The position of Spenser's Elizabethan gentleman is revealed to be a precarious one.
77. For the destitute, the impoverished, the sick, the hunted and the bereft, life was intolerably precarious.
78. Sport is but one and, seductive as it may be, it is precarious and, inevitably, short-term.
79. Harsh repression firmly put it down, outlaws taking as usual to a scattered and precarious existence in the Weald.
80. No one would lend money to a company in such a precarious position.
81. The typical peasant farmer has a precarious existence, at the mercy of flood,(sentence dictionary) disease and famine.
82. The situation is growing precarious as more and more corporations are peopled by temporary employees.
83. Are you sure he's safe on that ladder? It looks very precarious up there.
84. The motor trade is still in a very precarious state, with many dealers just treading water and others going bust.
85. But reason told her it was a precarious business at the best of times.
86. Now that balancing act has become more precarious than ever.
87. Unwritten rules may be a precarious basis on which to run a factory.
88. We find intelligence and life spooky because they maintain a precarious state far from equilibrium.
89. Rain sped along the wide empty road between the blue sea and the high mountains where ochre patches were precarious villages.
90. Opposing forces were in precarious balance, and resolving their tug-of-war was his prime concern.
More similar words: various, nefarious, curious, glorious, imperious, delirious, penurious, lugubrious, mysterious, laboriously, previous, previously, recall, take care, apothecary, take care of, scenario, precise, precede, imprecise, precisely, envious, noxious, anxious, dubious, obvious, depreciate, appreciate, officious, atrocious.