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Adjective precarious has 4 senses
- precarious, unstable - affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce"
Antonyms: easy, at ease (indirect, via uneasy)
- parlous, perilous, precarious, touch-and-go - 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"
Antonym: safe (indirect, via dangerous)
- precarious - dangerously insecure; "a precarious footing on the ladder"
Antonym: secure (indirect, via insecure)
- precarious, shaky - not secure; beset with difficulties; "a shaky marriage"
Antonym: secure (indirect, via insecure)
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