Usually means: Dangerously unstable or insecure situation.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. precarious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. precarious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. precarious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. precarious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. precarious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Precarious, precarious: Wordnik
  7. precarious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. precarious: Wiktionary
  9. precarious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. precarious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. precarious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. precarious: Dictionary.com
  13. precarious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. precarious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Precarious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Precarious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. precarious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. precarious: Rhymezone
  19. precarious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. precarious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. precarious: Free Dictionary
  22. precarious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. precarious: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. precarious: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precarious: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precarious: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (comparable) Dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous.
▸ adjective:  (law) Depending on the intention of another.
▸ adjective:  (dentistry) Relating to incipient caries.

Similar:
dangerous, parlous, perilous, uneasy, unsafe, insecure, shaky, unstable, touch-and-go, jeopardous, more...

Opposite:
stable, secure, safe

Types:
dangerous, risky, perilous, hazardous, unstable, shaky, chancy, dicey, more...

Phrases:
precarious possession, Precarious work, not as precarious, in a precarious situation, make for precarious travel, more...

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Similar:
dangerous, parlous, perilous, uneasy, unsafe, insecure, shaky, unstable, touch-and-go, jeopardous, more...

Opposite:
stable, secure, safe

Types:
dangerous, risky, perilous, hazardous, unstable, shaky, chancy, dicey, more...

Phrases:
precarious possession, Precarious work, not as precarious, in a precarious situation, make for precarious travel, precarious situation, a precarious situation, precarious position, opposite of precarious, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     ash gray,     slate gray,     stormy blue,     midnight blue, more...



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