PERLOUS Synonyms

• involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk

• death of a person

• a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)

• a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

• dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

• shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it

• carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface

• involving risk or danger

• not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way

• lacking in security or safety

• lacking self-confidence or assurance

• not safe from attack

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• fraught with danger

• affording no ease or reassurance

• fraught with danger

• not secure; beset with difficulties

• involving risk or danger

• not financially safe or secure

• dangerously unstable and unpredictable

• tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans

• lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance

• not established beyond doubt; still undecided or unknown

• not established or confirmed

• not certain to occur; not inevitable

• subject to change

• not consistent or dependable

• ambiguous (especially in the negative)

• not capable of being foretold

• unknown in advance

• not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals

• lacking in security or safety

• involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm

• not safe from attack

• lacking stability or fixity or firmness

• highly or violently reactive

• affording no ease or reassurance

• suffering from severe mental illness

• disposed to psychological variability

• subject to change; variable