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Meaning of precarious

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  precarious
      adj 1: affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce"
             [syn: {precarious}, {unstable}]
      2: 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" [syn:
         {parlous}, {perilous}, {precarious}, {touch-and-go}]
      3: not secure; beset with difficulties; "a shaky marriage" [syn:
         {precarious}, {shaky}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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