Usually means: Hazardous, risky, fraught with danger.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word parlous:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. parlous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. parlous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. parlous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. parlous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. parlous: Vocabulary.com
  6. parlous: Wordnik
  7. parlous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. parlous: Wiktionary
  9. parlous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. parlous: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Parlous, parlous: Dictionary.com
  12. parlous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Parlous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Parlous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. parlous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. parlous: Rhymezone
  17. Parlous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. parlous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. parlous: Free Dictionary
  20. parlous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. parlous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. parlous: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Parlous: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parlous: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parlous: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parlous: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Attended with peril; dangerous, risky.
adjective:  Appalling, dire, terrible.
adjective:  (rare or obsolete, also England, dialectal) Dangerously clever or cunning; also, remarkably good or unusual.
adverb:  (archaic) Extremely, very.

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