precarious

  • (s) affording no ease or reassurance
    • a precarious truce
    unstable,
  • (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, perilous, touch-and-go,
  • (s) not secure; beset with difficulties
    • a shaky marriage
    shaky,

Synonyms

unstable parlous perilous touch-and-go shaky

Words of close approximity

precariously precariousness