- Types Of Speech
- You can use precarious as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Precarious
- A 4 syllables adjective satellite and 10 letters with the letters a, c, e, i, o, p, r, s, and u, 5 consonants, 5 vowels and 4 syllables with the middle letters ar. Precarious starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters p, pr, pre, prec, preca, and the ending characters are s, us, ous, ious, rious, ..
- Definition
- Affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce"
- Origin/Roots
- Latin
- School Grade
- Precarious is set as a grade eight word that starts with p, ends with s, 4 syllables, 5 vowels and 10 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Precarious in Pig Latin is said as "ecariouspray or ecariousprway".
- Unigram
- p | r | e | c | a | r | i | o | u | s
- Bigram
- pr | re | ec | ca | ar | ri | io | ou | us
- Trigram
- pre | rec | eca | car | ari | rio | iou | ous
- Quadrigram
- prec | reca | ecar | cari | ario | riou | ious
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- affording no ease or reassurance;
"a precarious truce" - 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" - not secure;
beset with difficulties;
"a shaky marriage" - dangerously insecure;
"a precarious footing on the ladder"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ambiguous | having more than one possible meaning "ambiguous words" "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy" |
| Baffling | making great mental demands hard to comprehend or solve "a baffling problem" "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast" "a problematic situation at home" |
| Bedraggled | limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud "the beggar''s bedraggled clothes" "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts" |
| Border | a strip forming the outer edge of something "the rug had a wide blue border" |
| Borderline | a line that indicates a boundary |
| Boundary Line | |
| Broken Down | |
| Chanceful | of uncertain outcome especially fraught with risk "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker |
| Chancy | subject to accident or chance or change "a chancy appeal at best" "getting that job was definitely fluky" "a fluky wind" "an iffy proposition" |
| Confutable | able to be refuted |
View all cognitive synonyms for Precarious
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Precarious | affording no ease or reassurance "a precarious truce" |
View English words with the unique letters used in precarious. Words With The Letters Aceioprsu
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Uneasy | not at ease socially; unsure and constrained in manner; "awkward and reserved at parties"; "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn''t know"; "was always uneasy with strangers" |
Precarious Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With P
- Ends With S
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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