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The answer PRECARIOUS has 15 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of precarious in various dictionaries:
adj - affording no ease or reassurance
adj - fraught with danger
adj - not secure
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| This 10-letter synonym for "dangerous" often describes a risky or perilous situation |
| This adjective for the position you're in teetering on the edge of a cliff comes from the same root as "prayer" |
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| Not securely held or in position dangerously likely to fall or collapse. |
| not securely held or in position dangerously likely to fall or collapse. |
| in a dangerous state because of not being safe or not being held in place firmly: |
| A precarious situation is likely to get worse: |
| in danger because not firmly fixed likely to fall or suffer harm: |
| Dangerously lacking in security or stability: a precarious posture precarious footing on the ladder. |
| Subject to chance or unknown conditions: "His kingdom was still precarious the Danes far from subdued ( Christopher Brooke). |
| Based on uncertain, unwarranted, or unproved premises: a precarious solution to a difficult problem. |
| Archaic Dependent on the will or favor of another. |
| not secure beset with difficulties |
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| The precarium (plural precaria)or precaria (plural precariae) in the feminine formis a form of land tenure in which a petitioner (grantee) receives a property for a specific amount of time without any change of ownership. The precarium is thus a free gift made on request (or precarius, whence "prayer") and can be revoked. The grantor can reclaim the land and evict the grantee at any time, and the grantee's hold on the land is said to be "precarious". (The adjectival form "precarial" is also used.) The precarium arose in the late Roman Empire. In the Middle Ages it became a legal fiction, and the two parties usually signed a contract specifying the rent or services owed by the petitioner. Some precaria eventually became hereditary fiefs. In the Merovingian period the feminine form (singular precaria) became common, but in the eighth century the term beneficium began to replace precarium, although the institutions were practically identical. |