PRECARIOUS Synonyms

• 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

• fraught with danger

• lacking in security or safety

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

• not safe from attack

• fraught with danger

• of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk

• subject to accident or chance or change

• 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

• 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

• 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

• not to be trusted

• having concealed difficulty

• marked by skill in deception

• 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)

• fraught with danger

• inclined to shake as from weakness or defect

• affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets

• lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality

• unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age

• (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse

• subject to change or variation

• not firmly or solidly positioned

• a member of the Industrial Workers of the World

• inclined to shake as from weakness or defect