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Parlous

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Adjective

1. parlous, perilous, precarious, touch-and-go

fraught with danger

Example Sentences:
'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'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Parlous

see synonyms of parlous
adjective
1. 
dangerous or difficult
2. 
cunning
adverb
3. 
extremely

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Parlous

see synonyms of parlous
adjective
1.  Literary
perilous; dangerous; risky
2.  Archaic
dangerously clever; cunning, mischievous, shrewd, etc.
adverb Archaic
3. 
extremely; very

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Parlous

see synonyms of parlous
adj.
1. Perilous; dangerous: "starting from scratch in parlous economic times" (Madalynne Reuter).
2. Obsolete Dangerously cunning.

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