perilous

  • (s) 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
    parlous, touch-and-go, precarious,

Synonyms

parlous touch-and-go precarious

Words of close approximity

perilously perilousness