precarious 的定义
- dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- dependent on the will or pleasure of another; liable to be withdrawn or lost at the will of another: He held a precarious tenure under an arbitrary administration.
- exposed to or involving danger; dangerous; perilous; risky: the precarious life of an underseas diver.
- having insufficient, little, or no foundation: a precarious assumption.
precarious 近义词
tricky, doubtful
precarious 的近义词 40 个
- dangerous
- delicate
- dicey
- hazardous
- insecure
- perilous
- problematic
- risky
- rocky
- shaky
- slippery
- ticklish
- touchy
- uncertain
- unhealthy
- unreliable
- unsettled
- unstable
- unsteady
- ambiguous
- borderline
- chancy
- contingent
- dubious
- dynamite
- equivocal
- hairy
- hanging by a thread
- iffy
- impugnable
- indecisive
- loaded
- on thin ice
- open
- out on a limb
- rugged
- sensitive
- touch and go
- unsafe
- unsure
precarious 的反义词 16 个
更多precarious例句
- While places like Buca di Beppo are hardly independent restaurants, presumably Fieri’s restaurant concept keeps some members of the service industry employed at a time when restaurant work is precarious.
- The unique challenges some older people in the US face with digital access is making a precarious situation worse for them.
- As gender non-conforming persons, our natal homes can often render our wellbeing precarious.
- An absolutely global union would have no such motivation, making it far more precarious.
- Indeed, after watching Bridgerton, I concluded in my review that “its most interesting ideas — like Simon’s precarious place in society as a duke of color or his mysterious time abroad — get almost no attention.”
- But he has somehow leapt to a higher plateau during the last few years—all the more amazing given his precarious health.
- Somebody else suggests that the evidence is precarious, coming as it does from victims who might not make confident witnesses.
- It was a precarious life, tented on the fairgrounds with all earnings in cash.
- The incident highlights the precarious state of Afghanistan as U.S. troops prepare to withdraw from the country.
- Their harrowing escape to Erbil has ended in a precarious and hardscrabble existence.
- When riding along a good road his position was precarious enough, requiring all his best efforts to maintain his balance.
- To what sad, precarious, and miserable existence does he vow himself—he who takes up a literary career?
- She had felt that no really nice girl would travel so far on so precarious an errand, particularly when she was alone.
- Um could reach the highest shelf without standing on an inverted rice-pot, or the even more precarious fish-cleaning bench.
- The life of the forest and desert hunters is one of incessant activity, and their food supply is precarious.